Postman Always Rings Twice, The (1946) - (Movie Clip) Man Wanted

Postman Always Rings Twice, The (1946) - (Original Trailer)

Illicit lovers plot to kill the woman's older husband in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946),starring Lana Turner and John Garfield.

Postman Always Rings Twice, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) The Original Plan Was Hers

Rejoining Frank (John Garfield) and his narration from the James M. Cain novel, providing Cora (Lana Turner) with a bag of ball-bearings to whack her husband in the bathtub, arranging his accidental death, Tay Garnett directing, in The Postman Always Rings Twice, 1946.

Postman Always Rings Twice, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) He's Hooked

Frank (John Garfield), newly hired at the roadhouse, narrating after an early rejection by Cora (Lana Turner), then making inroads with her husband, his boss, Nick (Cecil Kellaway), in The Postman Always Rings Twice, 1946, from a James M. Cain novel.

Postman Always Rings Twice, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Business As Usual

Having failed to kill her husband in a staged accident, Cora (Lana Turner) and roadhouse hired-man Frank (John Garfield) return from the hospital, and deal with suspicious D-A Sackett (Leon Ames), in The Postman Always Rings Twice, 1946.

Postman Always Rings Twice, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Get That Blonde Out Of My System

The brief entire brilliant performance by Audrey Totter, herself usually the blonde, as Madge (the Anjelica Huston part in the 1982 Jack Nicholson, Jessica Lange and Bob Rafelson remake), just the gal to distract John Garfield (as Frank) from wife Lana Turner (in her landmark performance as waitress, wife and murderous adulteress Cora), who’s left on the train to visit her ailing mother, Hume Cronyn their friendly lawyer, in The Postman Always Rings Twice, 1946.