BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Paynbob It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

frankwiener Spoilers ahead! I admit that I don't understand the title. As much as I tried and tried, I finally gave up. I do understand that Frank (John Garfield) and Cora (Lana Turner) attempted to commit one crime and succeeded at another without being convicted but then ironically "paid" for their crimes unexpectedly and accidentally, but what does that have to do with a postman ringing twice? My postman doesn't even ring once, and almost everything that he delivers is junk mail that gets immediately recycled before I open it. Maybe the original title "Bar BQ" should have stuck. Who knows?Aside from what I have read about the personal relationship between the two leads, which was confusing by itself, I didn't think that they were very good. I didn't believe that Garfield was emotionally involved in his part, and, sorry folks, I never appreciated Lana Turner as an actor. What was her speech affectation all about? Did you catch that? She sounded as if she had just arrived on the set from major dental surgery, and I found it very irritating. I'm glad that novelist James Cain believed that she was the perfect Cora. In an odd way, perhaps he is right because I didn't like the character that she played either.Although the film interested me at the beginning, my involvement faded fast. Cora's relationship with Nick (Cecil Kellaway) was totally unrealistic to me, and Nick's character completely annoyed me. Much of the time, I felt that I was watching a parody or a spoof of an actual drama because so many of the lines seemed so ridiculous to me. I believed that the cast felt that they were as ludicrous as I found them and delivered them accordingly with very little effort or interest. All of a sudden, out of the blue, Nick announces that he and Cora are departing for the wilds of northern Canada to care for his long lost sister. Can you picture Cora settling permanently not just in Regina or Saskatoon but in northern Sasketchewan? I could tell immediately that everyone was in trouble from that moment forward. The stage was set!I like Leon Ames alright, but if he said "laddy" just one more time I was going to smash my pc to the ceramic floor into a thousand pieces. Somehow, I managed to control myself in the "nick" of time. It just wouldn't have been worth the loss.

Ian (Flash Review)A lower-class man wanders up to a roadside diner looking for a job. The diner is being run by an older gentleman and his much younger, and of course attractive, wife. The newly hired man and the woman have interest for each other and they think up a scheme to slide the old man out so they can both take control of the establishment for themselves and for wealth. Will their plan shake out and will she emotionally be able to leave her husband? This being Film Noir, you have to assume things won't go smoothly but how bad may they end up? The plot is very engaging, with good pacing and it takes several surprising turns. Solid cinematography with quality dialog made this an entertaining piece of cinema.

Hitchcoc One of the greatest of the Film Noir classics. This is the story of an unhappy woman who enlists the aid of a drifter to kill her husband. It begins with what appears to be a mere flirtation and escalates to a torrid love affair. Lana Turner is sumptuous, and John Garfield has that masculine edge, a dark man, somewhat mysterious, and truly clueless as he gets into more and more trouble. The two begin a sophisticated plot to do in her old man. He can't believe his good fortune to have this beautiful woman want him. Oh well. The best laid plans. The desolation of the place and the use of fine black and white cinematography enhance the danger.

SnoopyStyle Frank Chambers (John Garfield) is a drifter hitchhiking from San Fransico to San Diego. He stops outside of L.A. where he inquires about a MAN WANTED sign. Diner owner Nick Smith hires him. Surprisingly, the old plain Nick is married to the glamorous Cora (Lana Turner). After initially trying to get rid of Frank, she has an affair with him and plans to kill Nick. After some failed attempts, both Frank and Nick ride the car off the cliff. Frank survives and prosecutor Kyle Sackett tries to send them to prison. Arthur Keats (Hume Cronyn) is the lawyer defending Cora.Lana Turner is terrific. She has the desperation for something better. Right from the first moment, she is perfect for the role. I'm not as sold on Garfield. I wish he's more charismatic and more innocent. He has a bit too much of a hard edge. It's fine for a drifter but not so much when he needs to fumble the murder attempts and the police interrogation. Although they do have sexual chemistry which is saying a lot for the time.