The Postman Always Rings Twice

“Their Love was a Flame that Destroyed!”

A drifter named Frank Chambers (John Garfield) takes a job at a roadside diner, and within a day he is looking at the owner's wife. Cora Smith (Lana Turner) is married to Nick (Cecil Kellaway), and Tay Garnett lets the two of them circle each other until the idea of getting rid of him comes up. Cora stands in the kitchen of that diner, her marriage a locked door and Frank the only way out.