The Car Man (Bourne) opera. I didn't even know it that well, and I still don't know it that well, to be honest. I know there are parallels, but it was more the feeling of the music and the feeling of what we all know Carmen to be." The story is loosely based on the 1934 novel "The Postman Always Rings Twice" by American novelist James M. Cain (1892–1977) and the 1946 and 1981 films of the same name respectively starring John Garfield and Lana Turner, and Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange. In the films, Frank, a drifter, stops at a rural California diner
George White (film editor) George White (film editor) George White (August 20, 1911 – February 15, 1998) first became a Hollywood editor in 1942, spending most of his career at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Among his more well known efforts were the war film "Bataan" (1943), Vincente Minnelli’s "The Clock" (1945), Tay Garnett’s steamy version of "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946), the epic special effects extravaganza "Green Dolphin Street" (1947), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Film Editing, and "Challenge to Lassie" in 1949. The 1950s saw him working on such films as "A Life of Her Own" (1950), "The Naked Spur"