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 The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) is a film based on the 1934 novel by James M. Cain . This adaptation of the novel is the best known, starring Lana Turner , John Garfield , Cecil Kellaway , Hume Cronyn , Leon Ames , and Audrey Totter . It was...
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James Cain | | Birth Date: |
July 1, 1892 | | Death Date: |
October 27, 1977 | | Place of Birth: |
Annapolis, Maryland, United States of America | | Place of Death: |
University Park, Maryland, United States of America | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
journalist, writer |
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 Biography of James M(allahan) Cain
13385 words, approx. 44.6 pages
 "I, so far as I can sense the pattern of my mind, write of the wish that comes true, for some reason a terrifying concept, at least to my imagination. . . . I think my stories have some quality of the opening of a forbidden box, and that it is this, rath... summary from source:
 Biography of James Cain
1868 words, approx. 6.2 pages
Although he disliked the title, James M. Cain (1892-1977) is considered one of the preeminent "hard-boiled" crime writers of the 1930s and 1940s along with Dashiell Hammett, Horace McCoy, and Raymond Chandler. His explicit, stark style both startled and...
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253 words, approx. 1 pagesJames M. 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. Cain's novel is... summary from source:
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The Postman Always Rings Twice is a 1934 crime novel by James M. Cain. The novel was quite successful and notorious upon publication, and is regarded as one of the more important crime novels of the 20th century. Fast-moving and brief (only about 100...
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 Daily Variety The Postman Always Rings Twice.(Theater Review)
06/16/2005: 739 words, approx. 3 pages The Postman Always Rings Twice (Playhouse Theater, London; 750 seats; 40 [pounds sterling] ($72) top) An Incidental Colman, Ambassador Theater Group and Maidstone Prods. presentation, in association with Hilary Williams, of the West Yorkshire Playhouse production of a play in two acts... summary from source:
Literature/Film Quarterly Raising Cain with the censors, again: The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
01/01/2000: 4,068 words, approx. 14 pages James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice, like Double Indemnity, was just one example of a 1930s novel that the Production Code Administration (PCA) would not touch but later endorsed during World War II when conditions were more appropriate. These potentially scandalous stories...
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 Critical Essay by Tom S. Reck
2,626 words, approx. 9 pages
The literary reputation of James M. Cain is evidence of justice denied, a classic example of scholarly myopia toward the man whose novel The Postman Always Rings Twice (and we have Camus's word for this) was a model for The Stranger. Critics offer some begrudging admissions about Cain's power but mainly they only patronize his work. Typical comments say things like "good writing on less than good material," "a bath in sensationalism," or "hard-boiled hocus-po... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Edmund Wilson
672 words, approx. 2 pages
Let us begin with Mr. Cain and his school. The Postman Always Rings Twice came out in 1934; and Mr. Cain's second novel, Serenade, in 1937. They were followed by other similar novels which apparently derived from Mr. Cain. The whole group stemmed originally from Hemingway, but it was Hemingway turned picaresque; and it had its connections also with the new school of mystery writers of the type of Dashiell Hammett. Mr. Cain remained the best of these novelists. (pp. 19-20)
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Critical Essay by Franklin P. Adams
283 words, approx. 1 pages
Mr. Cain has written the most engrossing, unlaydownable book that I have any memory of…. "The Postman Always Rings Twice" is so continuously exciting that if you can put it down before you've finished it, you are not the reader I think you are…. To my mind, its style, which some will compare with Hemingway's, is better than most of Hemingway's, and as good as the Hemingway of "Twenty Grand." It is as tightly written, and as vernacularly dictapho...
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