Word: caine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in 1934 James M. Cain wrote an exciting noval about passion, murder, a bum, and a girl who "really wasn't any raving beauty" but who had a sulky look to her. Now "The Postman Always Rings Twice" is here in the movies, with sheer quantity of kisses pinch-hitting for passion and Lana Turner for the sulky, Mexican-looking woman. Murder and the bum more nearly receive their due, the latter at the hands of John Garfield, but in no way does the picture generate the speed and intensity of the book...
Donald Cecil Borg (Physics), Frederick Donald De Cain (General Studies), Alfred Gilbert Harris (General Studies), Arthur Richard Hasler, Jr. (General Studies), Eliezer Krumbein (Psychology), Edward Louis Liva (General Studies), Edwin Leroy McCarty (General Studies), Marvin Julius Powell (General Studies), Peter William Rizzo (General Studies), Richard Karl Roos (General Studies), Hugh Curtis Saunders (General Studies), George Cooper Tibbetts (Physics), Earl Frank Wolfman, Jr. (General Studies), Robin Fenton Worthington (Economics...
...Postman Always Rings Twice, at Loew's State and Orpheum. M-G-M's treatment of James M. Cain's novel about ham-and-eggs sex in California...
PAST ALL DISHONOR (233 pp.)-James M. Cain-Knopf...
...James Cain's new novel is set in the period of the War Between the States, but readers will not have to leaf far to discover that it is about the same hair-raising war-between-the-sexes that chilled U.S. marrows in The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce. A well-told tale whose deadpan savagery suggests that it was written with the tip of an icicle, it features enough lust and mayhem per page to shame a pulp novel...