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The Postman Always Rings Twice

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The Postman Always Rings Twice	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Postman Always Rings Twice is a 1934 crime novel written by James M. Cain.Frank Chambers, a young drifter, finds himself in a dusty diner in rural California in search of a meal. At the diner, he finds a job and a seductive married woman named Cora. Their attraction is instantaneous, and so starts their passionate affair. Cora's tired of living her life this way, married to an old Greek man named Nick whom she doesn't truly love. She wants to start over but keep the diner. Frank and she come up with the perfect solution and the perfect crime— to murder Nick. After an unsuccessful first try, they succeed. Too perfect a crime to have really succeeded, lawyers are onto them. Will they be caught, and how will they pay for their actions?It was controversial in its day for the violence and the sadomasochistic sexual relations between Cora and Frank. It is considered one of the best novels of modern literature.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Its most famous adaptation was the 1946 film noir, which was remade in 1981 (although Warner Bros. did not initially make either English-language version, they own both of them today, acquiring the 1981 version in its 1989 purchase of Lorimar-Telepictures, and the 1946 version when Time Warner acquired Turner Broadcasting System, the owners of the pre-1986 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer library, in 1996). There was also a 1939 French adaptation, The Last Turning, and a 1943 Italian adaptation, Ossessione.note With a war on, the producers didn't bother to get the rights to Cain's novel, so Ossessione wasn't shown in the United States until 1976.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice / int_2b1d7c0a	type	The Drifter
The Postman Always Rings Twice / int_2b1d7c0a	comment	The Drifter: Frank. We're first introduced to him bumming a ride in the back of someone's truck without their knowing, and he apparently has lived in (and been arrested in) multiple states at just 24 years old.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
The Postman Always Rings Twice / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: Cora and Frank try to kill Nick like this twice; it works for the second time. When Cora dies in a genuine car accident, Frank is accused of murdering her like this.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Postman Always Rings Twice / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Just when Cora and Frank repaired their relationship and she became pregnant, Cora is killed in a car accident. Frank is accused of murdering her, and sentenced to death.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice / int_55b1f9a1	type	Easy Amnesia
The Postman Always Rings Twice / int_55b1f9a1	comment	Easy Amnesia: After the attempt to hit Nick's head and make it look like he drowned in the bathtub, Nick gets retrograde amnesia from the nonfatal blow Frank managed to get.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice / int_798a9e41	type	Auto Erotica
The Postman Always Rings Twice / int_798a9e41	comment	Auto Erotica: Early in the novel, Cora and Frank have sex in a car.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice / int_88472ef3	type	Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life
The Postman Always Rings Twice / int_88472ef3	comment	Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Cora
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The Postman Always Rings Twice / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
The Postman Always Rings Twice / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Cora is a perfect example.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
The Postman Always Rings Twice / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: A version that became popularized in Film Noir.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice / int_9bca83eb	type	Death by Irony
The Postman Always Rings Twice / int_9bca83eb	comment	Death by Irony: Cora is killed in a car accident, the same way that they managed to kill Nick. Frank got away with a crime he did commit - killing Nick - but he's sentenced to death for one he did not, as Cora's death really was an accident.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice / int_9c550e26	type	Word Salad Title
The Postman Always Rings Twice / int_9c550e26	comment	Word Salad Title: The postman never shows up and is not even alluded to. There's lots of speculation as to where the name comes from, but James M. Cain admits it was something of a Non Sequitur. The Other Wiki has several possible interpretations.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Postman Always Rings Twice / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Played with, then averted for both Cora and Frank.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice / int_b5b3599d	type	Amoral Attorney
The Postman Always Rings Twice / int_b5b3599d	comment	Amoral Attorney: Katz, who manages to get the protagonists acquitted - though he knows that they're guilty - just to win a bet with the prosecutor.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice / int_bf74d357	type	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
The Postman Always Rings Twice / int_bf74d357	comment	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Nick and Cora.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice / int_d39d4b71	type	The Perfect Crime
The Postman Always Rings Twice / int_d39d4b71	comment	The Perfect Crime: After the first attempt, Frank deliberately wants to avoid the "perfect murder"; perfect things are suspicious.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice / int_df968cf	comment	Insurance Fraud: Used as a plot point. Nick changed his life insurance policy a day before he was murdered.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Of the Snyder-Gray murder.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: Comes up when Frank and Katz are discussing Kennedy:
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