The sensuous wife of a roadside diner proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordid, steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.The sensuous wife of a roadside diner proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordid, steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.The sensuous wife of a roadside diner proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordid, steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.
- Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations
Thomas Hill
- Barlow
- (as Tom Hill)
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Did you know
- TriviaDavid Mamet's first screenplay.
- GoofsModern-day paper currency is used in craps game set during Great Depression, instead of silver certificate dollar bills then in use.
- Quotes
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.
- Alternate versionsCBS edited 30 minutes from this film for its 1986 network television premiere.
- ConnectionsEdited into American Cinema: Film Noir (1995)
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an original remake
A remake of the 1946 film, this version features Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange, with a momentous white hot chemistry that can't possibly sustain itself but affords a memorable scene in the restaurant kitchen about ten minutes into the film which leads to the eventual plot to do in her older Greek husband. A story wherein neither would have the nerve to do such a thing alone, but together they make a job of it on one of the darkest nights and darkest rural roads ever. The trial for the murder features another couple of great performances by Michael Lerner as the resourceful to a fault defense attorney (if you were on trial for your life, you'd want this guy for a lawyer), and his investigator who becomes a menacing presence later in the film, played by John P Ryan. Very nicely photographed in color, it's set in the coastal hills and valleys north of LA, dotted with live oaks and capturing the rich earthy tones of the late afternoon golden hued hillsides that nicely contrast with the desperate story of the two lovers.
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- Wenn der Postmann zweimal klingelt
- Filming locations
- Barnsdall Rio Grande Service Station, Goleta, California, USA(Cora and a Drunk Nick and Frank get Fuel)
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- Budget
- $12,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $12,376,625
- Gross worldwide
- $12,383,416
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