The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946 film) filmed as "Le Dernier Tournant" ("The Last Turning") in France in 1939 and as "Ossessione" ("Obsession") in Italy in 1943. Frank Chambers (John Garfield) is a hobo who has hitched a ride with a man we later comes to learn is the local District Attorney, Kyle Sackett (Leon Ames). He drops Frank off at a rural diner/service station, Twin Oaks, for a meal. Frank ends up working there. The diner is operated by a beautiful young woman, Cora Smith (Lana Turner), and her much older husband, Nick (Cecil Kellaway). Frank and Cora start to have an affair soon after they
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946 film) from a plea bargain in which she pleads guilty to manslaughter and receives probation. Publicity from the murder makes Twin Oaks a raging success, but things remain tense between Frank and Cora. Keats and Sackett come by and Keats suggests that it is possible the District Attorney, having failed to make a murder charge stick, may take any action he can based on how people are talking about an unmarried man and woman living under the same roof. So, Cora arranges for she and Frank to marry. During their strained reception, Cora learns that she must leave town to visit