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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- 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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She's tired of what's right and what's wrong...
Immensely watchable, this remake of the 1940s classic is sexed up by writer David Mamet and director Bob Rafelson. Jack Nicholson is a drifter who ingratiates himself into the lives of roadside diner/gas station owner John Colicos and his impossibly sexy wife Jessica Lange. Soon Lange and Nicholson are having sex EVERYWHERE...and plotting to bump off Colicos. Aided by great cinematography by Sven Nykvist and very evocative production design by George Jenkins, Rafelson manages to capture James M. Cain's ironic novel and all it's sordidness. Nicholson is terrific but Lange gives a career making performance...this is the movie that put her on the map after the KING KONG debacle. There are times when she acts Nicholson off the screen. Colicos is fine, if a bit old for his role and Michael Lerner is in it too. Anjelica Huston has a really odd cameo as a lion tamer!
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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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