The Postman Always Rings Twice (original Hollywood Movie of the Same Name)
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The prototype of the story comes from a murder case of her husband that occurred in 1927. Thirty-one-year-old Ruth, a blonde beauty with "Scandinavian cold eyes", teamed up with her lover, the corset salesman Judd, to strangle her husband Albert with a hanging rope, and tried to defraud her of the personal accident insurance she had bought for him without telling her husband. Sex and murder, continuous media hype, and a large photo of Ruth sitting in the electric chair published in the New York Daily News made the case a national sensation. The plot setting at the beginning of Kane's novel is almost exactly the same as the real case, but the characters and events are made more typical and dramatic: this time the lover is called Frank, a young and handsome gangster who likes to wander around, and the novel is narrated in the first person from his perspective; this time the cold beauty is not blonde but black-haired, her name is Cora, in Frank's words, "except for her figure" "Except, she is really not a stunning beauty, but she has a melancholy look and her lips are stuck out so high that I can't help but want to squeeze them in for her." Cora's husband Nick is a "soft, greasy, short, dark and curly hair" Greek who likes to sing a lot when he has nothing to do. He runs a roadside shop that combines a gas station, a car repair shop, and a small restaurant.
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