
The Postman Always Rings Twice(1981)
The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.


“Their Love was a Flame that Destroyed!”
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.

John Garfield
Frank Chambers

Lana Turner
Cora Smith

Cecil Kellaway
Nick Smith

Hume Cronyn
Arthur Keats

Leon Ames
Kyle Sackett

Audrey Totter
Madge Gorland

Alan Reed
Ezra Liam Kennedy

Jeff York
Blair
Philip Ahlm
Photographer (uncredited)
John Alban
Photographer (uncredited)
The Postman Always Rings Twice is a drama, romance, crime, thriller film released in 1946 exploring themes of adultery, infidelity, based on novel or book, gas station, diner, femme fatale. Directed by Tay Garnett, it stars John Garfield, Lana Turner, Cecil Kellaway. A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
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