Except for the shape, she really wasn't any raving beauty, but she had a sulky look to her, and her lips stuck out in a way that made me want to mash them in for her. She had been out back, in the kitchen, but she came in to gather up my dishes. I got a couple of other propositions, that's my trouble. I can figure it out, but I stay with the grub.īy that time I had put down the rest of the coffee, and lit the cigar he gave me. He gave me some more about the air, and how healthy he's been since he bought this place, and how he can't figure it out, why his help won't stay with him. "Young fellow, hey? I could use young fellow right now. "Oh, one thing and another, one thing and another. I saw he was on, and quit talking about the guy in the Cadillac. This was to be on him, and I'm kind of short, myself." If this guy don't show up, you'll have to trust me for it. Pretty soon he came out with the orange juice and the corn flakes. I said orange juice, corn flakes, fried eggs and bacon, enchilada, flapjacks, and coffee. He layed a place at one of the tables and asked me what I was going to have. He was to pick me up here, I said, and we were to have lunch. When the Greek showed, I asked if a guy had been by in a Cadillac. I blew in there in a hurry and began looking down the road. There was a lunchroom part, and over that a house part, where they lived, and off to one side a filling station, and out back a half dozen shacks that they called an auto court. It was nothing but a roadside sandwich joint, like a million others in California. That was when I hit this Twin Oaks Tavern. They gave me a cigarette, though, and I hiked down the road to find something to eat. I tried some comical stuff, but all I got was a dead pan, so that gag was out. Then they saw a foot sticking out and threw me off. I needed plenty of that, after three weeks in Tia Juana, and I was still getting it when they pulled off to one side to let the engine cool. I had swung on the night before, down at the border, and as soon as I got up there under the canvas, I went to sleep. black and white, 35mm running time: 86 minutes.They threw me off the hay truck about noon. 27 September 1922 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), stage, television, and film director whose Bonnie and Clyde (1967) proved t… Crossfire, CROSSFIRE Career: Journalist in Copen… Arthur Hiller Penn, Penn, Arthur Hiller Family: Married Ebba Larsen, 1911, two sons. Career: Dramatur… Carl Theodor Dreyer, DREYER, Carl Theodor Family: Married 1) Rhoisin Patricia Harrison 2) Virginia Patricia Mary Dugan, 198… Douglas Sirk, Sirk, DouglasĮducation: Studied law, philosophy, and art history in Copenhagen, Munich, Jena, and Hamburg until 1922. Woodstock, New York, Overlook Press, 1992.įilm Noir, The genre known as film noir emerged from economic, political, and moral crises in European and American cultures in the years leading up to World Wa… Bruce Beresford, Nationality: Australian. Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style. "Whatever Happened to Film Noir? The Postman Always Rings Twice," Literature/Film Quarterly. New York, Vintage Books, 1992.ĭyer, Richard. L'amour fou (obsessive love) is at the heart of much of Cain's writing, making it eminently adaptable to film noir-a genre where amorality, violence, and a malevolent fate hang over its often psychologically realistic, morally ambiguous characters.Ĭain's novel has been adapted four times to film: as Ossessione by Luchino Visconti in 1942 (unavailable until very recently because of copyright problems), under its original title in 1946 by Tay Garnett (staring Lana Turner and John Garfield), in 1981 by Bob Rafelson (starring Jessica Lange and Jack Nicholson), and by Marcus DeLeon, in an uncredited version, as Kiss Me a Killer in 1991.Ĭain, James M. As in many novels in this genre, an amoral hero falls victim to his own powerful sexualĪttraction to a beautiful femme fatale. Cain's novel is central to the hard-boiled novel/ film noir tradition in American popular culture. Cain's (1892-1977) controversial bestseller The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) is an erotic and violent story about a waitress and a drifter who kill the woman's well-heeled, unattractive older husband.
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