The films 'The Postman Always Rings Twice' and 'Double Indemnity' were both based on novels written by which author of hardboiled school of American crime fiction?
Neo-noir described as "hardboiled". Some authors resisted these terms. For example, James M. Cain, author of "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1934) and "Double Indemnity" (1943), is considered to be one of the defining authors of hard-boiled fiction. Both these novels were adapted as crime films, the former more than once. But Cain is quoted as saying, "I belong to no school, hard-boiled or otherwise, and I believe these so-called schools exist mainly in the imagination of critics, and have little correspondence in reality anywhere else." Typically American crime dramas or psychological thrillers, films noir had a number of common themes
The Postman Always Rings Twice (novel) the Victorian era. When mail (post) was delivered, the postman knocked once to let the household know it was there: no reply was needed. When there was a telegram, however, which had to be handed over personally, he knocked twice so that the household would know to answer the door. Telegrams were expensive and usually the bringers of bad news: so a postman knocking (later, ringing) twice signaled trouble was on the way. In the preface to "Double Indemnity", Cain wrote that the title of "The Postman Always Rings Twice" came from a discussion he had with the screenwriter Vincent