John Garfield News

This is a guest post by Michael Ravnitzky, with titles suggested by Katherine Brosnan.

Boxing movies are like movies in general: Some are very, very good -- Raging Bull, Rocky, The Set-Up , the original Body and Soul and some are very, very bad Honeyboy, Goldie and the Boxer and the no-semblance-to-the-1947-classic remake of Body and Soul, starring the clueless Leon Isaac Kennedy in place of the great John Garfield.

The low-simmering German potboiler Jerichow is a reworking of James M. Cain's oft-filmed The Postman Always Rings Twice , and that's obvious from the start: There's a wandering rogue , his clueless employer , his smokin' wife , sweaty adultery and a murder scheme.

The low-simmering German potboiler Jerichow is a reworking of James M. Cain's oft-filmed The Postman Always Rings Twice , and that's obvious from the start: There's a wandering rogue , his clueless employer , his smokin' wife , sweaty adultery and a murder scheme.

German film 'Jerichow" subtly reworks "The Postman Always Rings Twice." Writer-director Christian Petzold takes the premise of the James M. Cain novel and deglamorizes it, giving the three main characters equal stature and making the sex and romance aspect less fraught and subjective.

Jame M. Cain's classic novel "The Postman Always Rings Twice" gets a noirish update from German writer/director Christian Petzold.

Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s: The Postman Always Rings Twice / They Shoot Horses, Don't They? / Thieves Like Us / The Big Clock / Nightmare ... / I Married a Dead Man Abstract Literature and film buffs will be delighted by this collection of pulp novels, most of which were made into important films.

Philip French's classic DVD: This first-rate, little-known film noir, a hard, harsh, fast-moving thriller, stars the great antihero John Garfield in his final role This first-rate, little-known film noir, a hard, harsh, fast-moving thriller, stars the great antihero John Garfield in his final role.