The Postman Always Rings Twice

Uh, um, she's typically manipulated of, uh, manipulative of men who she convinces them to do, to do dumb things, perhaps, uh, uh, criminal, criminal things.

Um, The Postman Always Rings Twice.

Mm-hmm.

Um, the movie Double Indemnity-

No wrong pick there.

The Big Sleep, The Postman Always Rings Twice, and Gilda.

The audience went with The Big Sleep.

We all liked it.

job, Jason.

And the audience was offered the option of Gilda or The Postman Always Rings Twice or the eventual choice here, which is The Big Sleep.

All great choices.

I think all classics, all excellent movies.

yes and I think and I don't know how it would have felt but Anna Karenina had I not been reading it from the perspective of this one person it really changed how I read it yeah so yeah I think if I'm going to read any more tomes of Russian literature I probably will have to be playing

somebody to do with it which does not speak well of me casting call out there we go well your final book is The Postman Always Rings Twice by James N. Kane which you've got a beautiful copy here with the great cover as we were talking about before tell me about your love of this one

Had you read it before? No.

Had you read any James M. Cain before? No, I hadn't.

This is a big year for noirs.

They could choose between The Big Sleep, Gilda, and The Postman Always Rings Twice, and they chose The Big Sleep.

I will say that all of those were good choices, so the audience could not have gone wrong.

But happy with the choice that they made.

Yeah, I think it kind of, it's so cinematic.

As well as it being inspired by, you know, Beasley's Carmen, it's also inspired by like film noir and The Postman Always Rings Twice, that movie.

So it's quite cinematic in the way it looks and feels.

in Les Brotherton's set, obviously, and just in the way it's choreographed.

So really famous case.

And actually, what's interesting about Snyder is, I'm sure you know Double Indemnity, The Postman Always Rings Twice, these novels and then films.

They're based on the Ruth Snyder case.

Oh.

Mm.

You know, the, the, um, l- like the bloke in The Postman Always Rings Twice.

He was going from town to town-

Yeah

Uh, and then, and they were quite formulaic as well, as these are formulaic.

I mean, I did find it quite funny, one of the reviews of this film said it's, "Oh, it's just a carbon copy of Double Indemnity or The Postman Always Rings Twice." And I was like, "Well, hang on.

Did you not know what film noir is? They're all carbon copies of each other to a certain extent.

That's the whole point." And there is a comfort to formula.