The films 'The Postman Always Rings Twice' and 'Double Indemnity' were both based on novels written by which author of hardboiled school of American crime fiction?
"The Postman Always Rings Twice (opera) The Postman Always Rings Twice is a 1982 opera with a libretto written by Colin Graham and music by Stephen Paulus, based on the 1934 novel by James M. Cain, ""The Postman Always Rings Twice"". The opera was the first of four commissioned from Paulus by the Opera Theatre of St. Louis. It opened to generally strong reviews, and prompted the critic from the ""New York Times"", in an otherwise mixed notice, to call Paulus ""a young man on the road to big things"". The opera has since been performed numerous times around the"
"broadcast of ""Lux Radio Theater"" with MacMurray and Stanwyck. Other films inspired by the Snyder-Gray murder include ""The Postman Always Rings Twice"" (also based on a Cain novel) and ""Body Heat"" (1981). Both ""Postman"" and ""Double Indemnity"" were remade: ""Double Indemnity"" was a telemovie in 1973 starring Richard Crenna (who also starred in ""Body Heat""), Lee J. Cobb, and Samantha Eggar; and is included on a bonus disc in the American DVD release of the original film. The ""Postman Rings"" remake was a 1981 theatrical release directed by Bob Rafelson and starring Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange. An Indian film,"
"M. Cain (whose ""The Postman Always Rings Twice"" appeared five years later), and popularized in pulp magazines such as ""Black Mask"". The classic film noirs ""The Maltese Falcon"" (1941) and ""The Glass Key"" (1942) were based on novels by Hammett; Cain's novels provided the basis for ""Double Indemnity"" (1944), ""Mildred Pierce"" (1945), ""The Postman Always Rings Twice"" (1946), and ""Slightly Scarlet"" (1956; adapted from ""Love's Lovely Counterfeit""). A decade before the classic era, a story by Hammett was the source for the gangster melodrama ""City Streets"" (1931), directed by Rouben Mamoulian and photographed by Lee Garmes, who worked regularly with"
"respect to later Depression-era novels, such as ""The Postman Always Rings Twice"". Hammett's distinctive and groundbreaking style helped usher in the hardboiled genre. ""The Glass Key"", written in Hammett's later noir years, is a prime example of his stylistic power. Raymond Chandler, a 20th-century author and critic, discussed Hammett's sense of the modern world in ""The Glass Key"": William Kennedy, also a 20th-century author and book critic, explained what is so complex about Hammett's writing style: ""Hammett's strategy is to show the process of detection as motivated by and affecting a friendship between two men. Out of these materials Hammett"
"Sacrifice"" (2012). Michael Lister Michael Lister (born February 11, 1968) is an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and filmmaker of Florida-based mysteries, suspense, thrillers, and noirs. He has authored 18 mystery novels, most featuring his two best-known characters, prison chaplain John Jordan (Blood-themed series) and 1940s noir detective Jimmy ""Soldier"" Riley (Big-themed series). He has a total of 27 books in print. He won the Florida Book Award in 2009 for his literary novel, ""Double Exposure"". Lister was born in Tallahassee, Florida, and grew up in Wewahitchka, Florida. Wewahitchka, or ""Wewa"", as the locals call it, is a small town well"
"1950, then split for good. Wilder and Chandler's ""Double Indemnity"" screenplay was included in Library of America's second volume of Chandler's work, ""Later Novels and Other Writings"" (1995). This volume also includes the aforementioned ""Writers in Hollywood"" piece by Chandler. Having the two protagonists mortally wound each other was one of the key factors in gaining Hays Office approval for the script: the Production Code demanded that criminals pay, on screen, for their transgressions. In addition, ""Double Indemnity"" broke new cinematic ground on several fronts, one of those being the first time a Hollywood film explicitly explored the means, motives,"
"Hayworth in ""Gilda"" (1946), Barbara Stanwyck in ""Double Indemnity"" (1944), and Lara Turner in ""The Postman Always Rings Twice"" (1946). These examples of deadly women commit crimes inside and outside the narrative of the films. As a consistent narrative trait in film noir, there are flashbacks embedded in the storyline, so as to signal towards the presence of a larger story outside of the feature film, an association with reality. As Karen Hollinger describes in “Film Noir, Voice-Over and the Femme Fatale,” women in film noir are subjected to the psychoanalytic perspective of the male, which forces a consistent attempt"
"Michael Lister Michael Lister (born February 11, 1968) is an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and filmmaker of Florida-based mysteries, suspense, thrillers, and noirs. He has authored 18 mystery novels, most featuring his two best-known characters, prison chaplain John Jordan (Blood-themed series) and 1940s noir detective Jimmy ""Soldier"" Riley (Big-themed series). He has a total of 27 books in print. He won the Florida Book Award in 2009 for his literary novel, ""Double Exposure"". Lister was born in Tallahassee, Florida, and grew up in Wewahitchka, Florida. Wewahitchka, or ""Wewa"", as the locals call it, is a small town well known for"
"After all – Luise Rainer won it two times. ""Luise Rainer!"""" American Film Institute included the film on these lists: The Writers Guild of America ranked the film's screenplay as the 26th greatest ever written. ""Double Indemnity"" was adapted as a radio play on two broadcasts of ""The Screen Guild Theater"", first on March 5, 1945 with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck, then five years later on February 16, 1950 with Stanwyck and Robert Taylor. It was also adapted to the October 15, 1948 broadcast of the ""Ford Theatre"" with Burt Lancaster and Joan Bennett and the October 30, 1950"
"was up to professional standard), reading and listening to classical music, being a particularly enthusiastic opera lover. Also, as a form of relaxation between novels, he put together highly complicated and sophisticated Meccano models. Prohibition and the ensuing Great Depression in the US (1929–39) had given rise to the Chicago gangster culture prior to World War II. This, combined with Chase's book trade experience, made him realise that there was a big demand for gangster stories. After reading James M. Cain's novel ""The Postman Always Rings Twice"" (1934), and having read about the American gangster Ma Barker and her sons,"
"along. ""Double Indemnity"" not only set conventions for the ""noir"" genre (such as ""venetian blind"" lighting and voice-over narration), but was also a landmark in the battle against Hollywood censorship. The original James M. Cain novel ""Double Indemnity"" featured two love triangles and a murder plotted for insurance money. While the book was highly popular with the reading public, it had been considered unfilmable under the Hays Code, because adultery was central to its plot. ""Double Indemnity"" is credited by some as the first true film noir, combining the stylistic elements of ""Citizen Kane"" with the narrative elements of ""The"
"Samantha Eggar portrayed Dietrichson in a 1973 made-for-television remake. Phyllis Dietrichson Phyllis Dietrichson (Phyllis Nirdlinger, in the book) is a fictional character in the book and two film adaptations of James M. Cain's novella ""Double Indemnity"". In the 1944 production, she was played by Barbara Stanwyck. Stanwyck was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film version. Stanwyck's portrayal of Dietrichson is considered one of the best Femme fatale roles in Film noir history. The character was ranked as the #8 film villain of the first 100 years of American cinema by the American"
"Roy Huggins Roy Huggins (July 18, 1914 – April 3, 2002) was an American novelist and an influential writer/creator and producer of character-driven television series, including ""Maverick"", ""The Fugitive"", and ""The Rockford Files"". A noted writer and producer using his own name, much of his later television scriptwriting was done using the pseudonyms Thomas Fitzroy, John Thomas James, and John Francis O'Mara. Huggins was educated at the University of California, Los Angeles, 1935-41. After graduation, he worked as a special representative of the U.S. Civil Service, 1941–43, and later as an industrial engineer, 1943-46. Huggins' novels include ""The Double Take"""
"in ""The Killers"" and Cora (Lana Turner) in ""The Postman Always Rings Twice"", based on novels by Ernest Hemingway and James M. Cain respectively, manipulate men into killing their husbands. In the Hitchcock film ""The Paradine Case"" (1947), Alida Valli's character causes the deaths of two men and the near destruction of another. Another frequently cited example is the character Jane played by Lizabeth Scott in ""Too Late for Tears"" (1949); during her quest to keep some dirty money from its rightful recipient and her husband, she uses poison, lies, sexual teasing and a gun to keep men wrapped around"
"Phyllis Dietrichson Phyllis Dietrichson (Phyllis Nirdlinger, in the book) is a fictional character in the book and two film adaptations of James M. Cain's novella ""Double Indemnity"". In the 1944 production, she was played by Barbara Stanwyck. Stanwyck was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film version. Stanwyck's portrayal of Dietrichson is considered one of the best Femme fatale roles in Film noir history. The character was ranked as the #8 film villain of the first 100 years of American cinema by the American Film Institute in the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes"
"became the basis for three movie versions adapted by other screenwriters, including the 1944 film ""Murder My Sweet"", which marked the screen debut of the Marlowe character, played by Dick Powell (whose depiction of Marlowe Chandler reportedly applauded). Literary success and film adaptations led to a demand for Chandler himself as a screenwriter. He and Billy Wilder co-wrote ""Double Indemnity"" (1944), based on James M. Cain's novel of the same title. The noir screenplay was nominated for an Academy Award. Said Wilder, ""I would just guide the structure and I would also do a lot of the dialogue, and he"
"Double Whammy (novel) Double Whammy is a 1987 novel by Carl Hiaasen. The protagonist, a private investigator, is hired to expose a celebrity bass fisherman as a cheat and is drawn into a frame-up for murder. The book introduced the character of ""Skink"" (Clinton Tyree), who becomes a recurring character in Hiaasen's subsequent novels. The ""Double Whammy"" is a fishing lure, supposedly the favorite of the celebrity angler. One early August morning in Harney County, Florida, the body of Robert Clinch is found floating in a lake shortly after taking his boat out to go bass fishing. Private investigator R.J."
"Cain used the Snyder case as an inspiration for his 1943 novel ""Double Indemnity""; Marling believed it was also a model for the plot and the title of ""Postman"". In the real-life case, Snyder said she had prevented her husband from discovering the changes she had made to his life insurance policy by telling the postman to deliver the policy's payment notices only to her and instructing him to ring the doorbell twice as a signal indicating he had such a delivery for her. The historian Judith Flanders, however, has interpreted the title as a reference to postal customs in"
"a play, a short story, and satirical pieces for ""American Mercury"". He briefly served as the managing editor of ""The New Yorker"" and later worked mainly on screenplays and novels. His first novel, ""The Postman Always Rings Twice"", was published in 1934. Two years later ""Double Indemnity"" was serialized in ""Liberty"" magazine. Cain made use of his love of music, particularly the opera, in at least three of his novels: ""Serenade"", about an American opera singer who loses his voice and, after spending part of his life south of the border, re-enters the United States illegally with a Mexican prostitute;"
"Linda Helen. He died of a heart attack at the age of 55 in New York City. John H. Secondari John Hermes Secondari (November 1, 1919 – February 8, 1975) was an American author and television producer. Secondari's 1952 novel ""Coins in the Fountain"" was made into the 1954 Academy Award-winning film ""Three Coins in the Fountain"", and then in 1964, to his disappointment, remade as the Twentieth Century-Fox film ""The Pleasure Seekers"". He went on to write plays for Playhouse 90 and was the founding Washington Bureau Chief and White House Correspondent for the ABC Television Network. In 1963,"
"Thomas P. Cullinan Thomas P. Cullinan (November 4, 1919 – June 11, 1995) was an American novelist and playwright, as well as a writer for television. He is perhaps best known for his 1966 novel ""The Beguiled"", which was made into two films of the same name, in 1971 and again in 2017. Cullinan was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, in an Irish Catholic family. He graduated from Cathedral Latin High School in 1938, and later attended Case Western Reserve University. In addition to ""The Beguiled"" (1966), Cullinan's novel about the American Civil War, he wrote three novels—""The Besieged"""
"upstate New York and currently lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. Patrick Andersen, in a Washington Post review of Jones’s 2006 novel ""Boot Tracks"", termed the phrase ‘literate noir’ to describe the tense, psychological nature of Joes work. And in a starred review of Jones’s 1999 psychological thriller ""Deepwater"", Booklist critic Bill Ott described Jones as a ‘leading contemporary author of country noir, a subgenre whose roots trace back to James M. Cain’s Post Man Always Rings Twice.’ A film version of Deepwater was released under the same name in 2006, starring Lucas Black, Peter Coyote and Leslie Anne Warren. Jones’s own"
"in Tulsa on March 2, 1998. O'Brien was inducted into the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame in 1997. Darcy O'Brien Darcy O'Brien (July 16, 1939, in Los Angeles – March 2, 1998, in Tulsa, Oklahoma) was an award-winning author of fiction and literary criticism, most well known for his work in the genre of true crime. His first novel, ""A Way of Life, Like Any Other"", was a fictionalized account of his childhood in Hollywood. In 1985, he wrote a book about the Hillside Stranglers entitled ""Two of a Kind: The Hillside Stranglers"", which was adapted into a made-for-television film"
"the ""charged chemistry"" between Nicholson and Lange, and stated that Nicholson admitted that he was smitten with his co-star, remarking that she was a ""big consensus movie sex bomb"". The film was nominated by the American Film Institute in 2002 for the AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions list. The star of the 1946 version, Lana Turner, expressed her disapproval of the remake. She especially disliked how the studio ""turned it into such pornographic trash"", and admitted that although she did not watch the remake, she had seen advertisements and blurbs on television that made her sick. The Postman Always Rings Twice"
"papers at the Academy’s Margaret Herrick Library. Fred MacMurray Frederick Martin MacMurray (August 30, 1908 – November 5, 1991) was an American actor and singer who appeared in more than 100 films and a successful television series during a career that spanned nearly a half-century, from 1930 to the 1970s. MacMurray is best known for his role in the 1944 film noir ""Double Indemnity"" directed by Billy Wilder, in which he starred with Barbara Stanwyck. Later in his career, he performed in numerous Disney films, including ""The Absent-Minded Professor"", ""The Happiest Millionaire"", and ""The Shaggy Dog"". In 1960, MacMurray turned"
"George V. Higgins George V. Higgins (November 13, 1939 – November 6, 1999) was an American author, lawyer, newspaper columnist, raconteur and college professor. He authored 29 books, including ""Bomber's Law,"" ""Trust"" and ""Kennedy for the Defense"" and is best known for his bestselling crime novels, including The Friends of Eddie Coyle, which established the Boston noir genre of gangster tales that spawned several popular films by followers in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Higgins was born in Brockton, Massachusetts, grew up in the nearby town of Rockland and attended Boston College, where he was editor of the"
"Eugene Izzi Eugene Izzi (March 23, 1953 – December 7, 1996) was an American crime writer. Izzi, a lifelong resident of Chicago, set most of his work in that city. He wrote in the classic hard-boiled style made famous by Mickey Spillane and Dashiell Hammett. Despite moderate popularity, he is best known for the unusual circumstances surrounding his death. Although few details are known of Izzi's early life, most accounts describe a trouble-prone youth. Izzi himself dropped out of high school and enlisted in the army. During his military service, Izzi completed his high school equivalency degree. Upon his return"
"Case Of Duplicate Daughter"", to his friend Dr Camps in appreciation of his professional acumen. A short dedication note by the author can be found at the beginning of the novel. Francis Camps Francis Edward Camps, FRCP, FRCPath (28 June 1905 – 8 July 1972) was a famous English pathologist notable for his work on the cases of serial killer John Christie and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams. Camps was born in Teddington, Middlesex, the son of Dr Percy William Leopold Camps (1878 - 1956), a general practitioner and surgeon. Camps was educated at Marlborough College, followed by a"
"John H. Secondari John Hermes Secondari (November 1, 1919 – February 8, 1975) was an American author and television producer. Secondari's 1952 novel ""Coins in the Fountain"" was made into the 1954 Academy Award-winning film ""Three Coins in the Fountain"", and then in 1964, to his disappointment, remade as the Twentieth Century-Fox film ""The Pleasure Seekers"". He went on to write plays for Playhouse 90 and was the founding Washington Bureau Chief and White House Correspondent for the ABC Television Network. In 1963, he produced the Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning ABC television series ""Saga of Western Man"". John H. Secondari"
"Walter Wager Walter Herman Wager (September 4, 1924 – July 11, 2004) was an American crime and espionage-thriller novelist. The movie ""Telefon"", starring Charles Bronson, was inspired by his novel of the same name. His book ""58 Minutes"" was adapted into ""Die Hard 2"", starring Bruce Willis. Walter Wager was born in The Bronx, New York City, the son of a doctor and a nurse who had emigrated from the Russian Empire. A 1944 graduate of Columbia College, where he was a member of the Philolexian Society, he went on to a Harvard Law School degree three years later. Passing"
"also credited as co-writer on ""Dark City"" (1998), ""The Score"" (2001), and ""Haywire"" (2012), an action-thriller directed by Steven Soderbergh (who also directed ""Kafka"" and ""The Limey""). Dobbs has spoken on DVD commentary tracks for his films ""Dark City"" and ""The Limey"", and (as a film historian) for the unrelated ""In the French Style"" (1963), ""Von Ryan's Express"" (1965), ""The Sand Pebbles"" (1966), and ""Double Indemnity"" (1945), the last due to his personal friendship with the director Billy Wilder. Lem Dobbs Lem Dobbs (born Anton Lemuel Kitaj; 24 December 1959) is a British-American screenwriter, best known for the films ""Dark"
"Truman Capote Truman Garcia Capote (; born Truman Streckfus Persons, September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, including the novella ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" (1958) and the true crime novel ""In Cold Blood"" (1966), which he labeled a ""nonfiction novel"". At least 20 films and television dramas have been produced from his work. Capote rose above a childhood troubled by divorce, a long absence from his mother, and multiple migrations. He had discovered his calling as"
"Darcy O'Brien Darcy O'Brien (July 16, 1939, in Los Angeles – March 2, 1998, in Tulsa, Oklahoma) was an award-winning author of fiction and literary criticism, most well known for his work in the genre of true crime. His first novel, ""A Way of Life, Like Any Other"", was a fictionalized account of his childhood in Hollywood. In 1985, he wrote a book about the Hillside Stranglers entitled ""Two of a Kind: The Hillside Stranglers"", which was adapted into a made-for-television film called ""The Case of the Hillside Stranglers"", starring Richard Crenna. Darcy O'Brien was born in Los Angeles, the"