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The Postman Always Rings Twice
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Directed By
Tay Garnett
Written By
Harry Ruskin
screen play
Niven Busch
screen play
James M. Cain
based on the novel by
Cast
Lana Turner
Cora Smith
John Garfield
Frank Chambers
Cecil Kellaway
Nick Smith
Hume Cronyn
Arthur Keats
Leon Ames
Kyle Sackett
Audrey Totter
Madge Gorland
Alan Reed
Ezra Liam Kennedy
Jeff York
Blair
Philip Ahlm
Photographer
John Alban
Photographer
Don Anderson
Orderly Pushing Wheelchair
Morris Ankrum
Judge
King Baggot
Courtroom Spectator
Betty Blythe
Customer
Paul Bradley
Man
Barbara Brewster
Danielle - Ben's Twin Girl
Gloria Brewster
Yvette - Ben's Twin Girl
Wally Cassell
Ben
Jack Chefe
Headwaiter
Dick Crockett
Reporter
Oliver Cross
Man
James Darrell
Reporter
Tom Dillon
Father McConnell
Edward Earle
Doctor
Jim Farley
Warden
Byron Foulger
Picnic Manager
Joel Friedkin
John X. McHugh
A. Cameron Grant
Willie
Robert Haines
Courtroom Spectator
William Halligan
Judge
Bud Harrison
Bailiff
Paul Kruger
Officer
Frank Mayo
Bailiff
Helen McLeod
Customer
Harold Miller
Photographer
Howard M. Mitchell
Doctor
Sandra Morgan
Matron
George Noisom
Telegraph Messenger
Garry Owen
Truck Driver
Dorothy Phillips
Nurse
Dan Quigg
Man
Virginia L. Randolph
Snooty Woman
Paula Ray
Woman
Hilda Rhodes
Customer
Walter Ridge
Reporter
Jeffrey Sayre
Reporter
Edgar Sherrod
Minor Role
Reginald Simpson
Photographer
Brick Sullivan
Officer
John M. Sullivan
Doctor
Charles Williams
Doctor
Produced By
Carey Wilson
producer
Music
George Bassman
Composer
Cinematography
Sidney Wagner
director of photography
Sound
Douglas Shearer
recording director
Charles J. Burbridge
unit mixer
James Z. Flaster
re-recording and effects mixer
Ralph A. Pender
re-recording and effects mixer
Robert Shirley
re-recording and effects mixer
Newell Sparks
re-recording and effects mixer
William Steinkamp
re-recording and effects mixer
Michael Steinore
re-recording and effects mixer
Don T. Whitmer
re-recording and effects mixer
Editing
George White
film editor
Art Direction
Randall Duell
Cedric Gibbons
Set Design
Edwin B. Willis
Set Decorator
Makeup
Jack Dawn
makeup creator
Visual Effects
Mark Davis
matte paintings camera
A. Arnold Gillespie
miniatures / transparency projection shots
Warren Newcombe
matte paintings
Assistant Director
Bill Lewis
assistant director
Production Management
Harry Poppe
production manager
Art Department
Clarence J. Falk
greens supervisor
Carl Nugent
props
Frank Wesselhoff
painter
Other
Gladys Norvell
research assistant
George Richelavie
research director
Music Department
Ted Duncan
orchestrator
Frederick Herbert
music mixer
M.J. McLaughlin
music mixer
Albert Sendrey
orchestrator
Eric Zeisl
composer: stock music
Costume Department
Irene
costume supervisor
Marion Herwood Keyes
associate costume supervisor
Eugene Joseff
costume jeweller
Helen Scovil Roup
wardrobe
Camera Department
John Schmitz
second camera operator
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