The Postman Always Rings Twice 1981
Directed by Bob Rafelson
- Crime, Romance, Drama, Thriller
- 122 min
- R
You can get away with anything. Once.
The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.
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Grave, classical in form, spare and unpretentious.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
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Cast
- Jack NicholsonFrank Chambers
- Jessica LangeCora Papadakis
- John ColicosNick Papadakis
- Michael LernerMr. Katz
- John P. RyanKennedy
- Anjelica HustonMadge
- William TraylorSackett
- Thomas HillBarlow
- Jon Van NessMotorcycle Cop
- Brian FarrellMortenson
Crew
- Bob RafelsonDirector
- David MametScreenplay
- James M. CainNovel
- Sven NykvistDirector of Photography
- Michael SmallOriginal Music Composer
- Graeme CliffordEditor
- Charles MulvehillProducer
- Bob RafelsonProducer
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