HeyJaredIn Contrast
On the In Contrast podcast, Alan & Nisha talk about movies and the books they are based on. Nisha reads the books and Alan watches the screen adaptations, and through discussion of comparison and contrast, they attempt to answer the age-old question: Is the book better than…
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In episode 27, Alan and Nisha take on their first noir, discussing the 1934 novel The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain. This classic hardboiled tale of passion and crime, just like Cain's other major work Double Indemnity , has held huge influence over crime fiction and film noir. It has been directly adapted numerous times over the years, but for this conversation we focus primarily on 4 films: First, the 1946 noir film of the same name starring John Garfield and Lana Turner. Next, t
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