Una sensual mujer casada tiene una aventura tórrida con un hombre desarraigado y juntos conspiran para asesinar al marido griego.Una sensual mujer casada tiene una aventura tórrida con un hombre desarraigado y juntos conspiran para asesinar al marido griego.Una sensual mujer casada tiene una aventura tórrida con un hombre desarraigado y juntos conspiran para asesinar al marido griego.
- Premios
- 1 premio y 2 nominaciones
Thomas Hill
- Barlow
- (as Tom Hill)
Argumento
¿Sabías que...?
- CuriosidadesDavid Mamet's first screenplay.
- PifiasModern-day paper currency is used in craps game set during Great Depression, instead of silver certificate dollar bills then in use.
- Citas
Cora: I gotta have you, Frank. If it was just us. If it was just you and me.
Frank Chambers: What are you talking about?
Cora: I'm getting tired of what's right and wrong.
Frank Chambers: They hang people for that, Cora.
- Versiones alternativasCBS edited 30 minutes from this film for its 1986 network television premiere.
- ConexionesEdited into American Cinema: Film Noir (1995)
Reseña destacada
The fourth version of the James M. Cain novel...which is itself a reworking of Zola's "Thérèse Raquin".
"The Postman Always Rings Twice" is the second American version of the famous James M. Cain novel and the fourth overall version. In addition, Émile Zola's story "Thérèse Raquin" clearly was more than just the inspiration for Cain, as it's so similar, too similar, to be coincidental. And the Zola novel has been made at least twenty or more times! So in other words, this 1981 film is a version of a story that's been made over and over and over again....to the point where you wonder why they keep making it!
As I watched this 1981 film, I was pleasantly surprised by one thing...it really does stick very closely to the novel. In many, many ways the characters are nothing like the overly sanitized Lana Turner/John Garfield version. Jack Nicholson's version of Frank is far nastier than the drifter played in the 1946 film. He has a prison record and isn't likable in the least. As for Cora, she's a lot kinkier than she was in earlier versions! In fact, in 1946 they simply couldn't have stuck too closely to the novel due to the tough Production Code...which prevented nudity and kinks from being included in films...and Cora really has some kinks in this film! So, at least it is a much more faithful version of the story...albeit still yet one more version of the story. And this leads me to the important question...is it any good? Well, yes and no. The acting and production are pretty good and the story engaging...but it also is familiar (I know I've mentioned this OFTEN already) and the courtroom scene where Jessica Lange has her outburst is absolutely absurdly overacted. Still, not a bad little film.
As I watched this 1981 film, I was pleasantly surprised by one thing...it really does stick very closely to the novel. In many, many ways the characters are nothing like the overly sanitized Lana Turner/John Garfield version. Jack Nicholson's version of Frank is far nastier than the drifter played in the 1946 film. He has a prison record and isn't likable in the least. As for Cora, she's a lot kinkier than she was in earlier versions! In fact, in 1946 they simply couldn't have stuck too closely to the novel due to the tough Production Code...which prevented nudity and kinks from being included in films...and Cora really has some kinks in this film! So, at least it is a much more faithful version of the story...albeit still yet one more version of the story. And this leads me to the important question...is it any good? Well, yes and no. The acting and production are pretty good and the story engaging...but it also is familiar (I know I've mentioned this OFTEN already) and the courtroom scene where Jessica Lange has her outburst is absolutely absurdly overacted. Still, not a bad little film.
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- 8 abr 2021
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Detalles
- Fecha de lanzamiento
- Países de origen
- Idiomas
- Títulos en diferentes países
- El carter sempre truca dues vegades
- Localizaciones del rodaje
- Barnsdall Rio Grande Service Station, Goleta, California, Estados Unidos(Cora and a Drunk Nick and Frank get Fuel)
- Empresas productoras
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- Presupuesto
- 12.000.000 US$ (estimación)
- Recaudación en Estados Unidos y Canadá
- 12.376.625 US$
- Recaudación en todo el mundo
- 12.383.416 US$
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What was the official certification given to El cartero siempre llama dos veces (1981) in Japan?
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