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
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946 film) her sick mother. At the train station, after Cora rebuffs him and leaves, Frank spots a woman having car trouble and hooks up with her. When Cora returns, she talks to Frank about how she believes the two of them are going to get along much better. When they arrive home, Kennedy (Alan Reed), an investigator who used to work for Cora's lawyer, is waiting; he attempts to blackmail them with Cora's confession, but she and Frank beat him up and force him, and his partner in crime, to give them all copies. After the men are gone, Cora reveals