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The Postman Always Rings Twice
Drifter
Frank Chambers takes a job at a roadhouse run by slovenly but likeable Nick
Smith. Nick's sexy young wife Cora (Lana Turner) takes an immediate liking
to Frank, but he senses that she's trouble and he keeps his distance--for a
while, anyway. Inevitably succumbing to Cora's tawdry charms, Frank enters into
her scheme to murder Nick and claim the old boy's insurance money. Not long
after committing the foul deed, Frank and Cora are arrested. Thanks to the
conniving of slimy attorney Arthur Keats (Hume Cronyn), the illicit lovers are
able to beat the murder rap--but, as the film's title symbolically indicates,
they eventually pay for their misdeeds in an unexpected manner.