The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946 film) confident you'll enjoy the resulting legal byplay that goes on between Hume Cronyn, as Miss Turner's lawyer, and Leon Ames, as the prosecuting attorney. As a matter of fact, Mr. Cronyn and Mr. Ames take most of the acting honors, and there is a decided letdown in the picture after a courtroom clash in which both of them participate with vast enthusiasm." Writing in 2000, critic Stephen MacMillan Moser appreciated Lana Turner's acting and wrote, "It is perhaps her finest work—from a body of work that includes very few truly stellar performances. She was a star, and not necessarily an
Portrayal of women in film noir Hayworth in "Gilda" (1946), Barbara Stanwyck in "Double Indemnity" (1944), and Lara Turner in "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946). These examples of deadly women commit crimes inside and outside the narrative of the films. As a consistent narrative trait in film noir, there are flashbacks embedded in the storyline, so as to signal towards the presence of a larger story outside of the feature film, an association with reality. As Karen Hollinger describes in “Film Noir, Voice-Over and the Femme Fatale,” women in film noir are subjected to the psychoanalytic perspective of the male, which forces a consistent attempt