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James M Cain

May 2023

  • Jessica Lange and Jack Nicholson in Bob Rafelson’s 1981 film of The Postman Always Rings Twice, by James M Cain.

    Lost story by ‘poet of the tabloid murder’ James M Cain discovered in Library of Congress

    Strand Magazine will publish Blackmail, a tale of a blind Korean war veteran, found by New York editor Andrew Gulli

March 2023

  • Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray as Walter and Phyllis in the 1944 film of Double Indemnity.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 criminal duos in fiction

    Authors from James M Cain to Patricia Highsmith show how partners in crime can really bring out the worst in each other

July 2022

  • Peter Bradshaw

    Bob Rafelson: subtle and complex director was presiding genius of the Hollywood new wave

    Peter Bradshaw
    Rafelson was a director who got era-defining performances out of Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces and The King of Marvin Gardens, as well as co-creating the Monkees

December 2019

  • Ralph Fiennes and Julianna Moore in Neil Jordan’s film of The End of the Affair (1999).

    Top 10s
    Top 10 novels about adultery

    From Graham Greene’s anguished transgressions to Milan Kundera’s happy-go-lucky erotic adventures, fiction has long adored illicit affairs

April 2018

  • The perfect crime

    Top writers choose their perfect crime

    Crime fiction is now the UK’s bestselling genre. So which crime novels should everyone read? We asked the writers who know ...

April 2017

  • Jude Law and Halina Reijn in Obsession.

    Obsession review – Jude Law channels Macbeth in tale of passion and murder

    Law and Halina Reijn impress in Ivo van Hove’s stylish stage version of Visconti’s 1942 film but the production glosses over the original’s harsh story

December 2014

  • The Big Sleep

    Reading group
    Choose December’s Reading group: Noir Christmas

    Sam Jordison: This month we’re after a hard-bitten great to get to grips with. Please help round up some likely suspects

May 2014

  • postman pat

    Postman Pat: The Movie review – shiny, slightly scary spin-off

    With bland digimation and sinister cyborgs delivering the post, the film lacks the charm of the TV original, writes Mark Kermode

October 2013

  • Get Carter

    Film blog
    Top 10 crime movies

    Murder, robbery, revenge... some of the greatest films revolve around the vilest human acts. The Guardian and Observer's critics pick the best crime films ever made

June 2013

  • The Sex Pistols

    Books blog
    Crime fiction: the new punk?

    Just as the Sex Pistols invigorated a hidebound rock establishment, so contemporary noir could wake up literary novels to a wider world

October 2012

  • Crime fiction roundup
    Crime novels - review

    The Cocktail Waitress by James M Cain, The Jewels of Paradise by Donna Leon, I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Choked by Tania Carver

July 2012

  • VARIOUS

    Philip French's classic DVD
    Double Indemnity

    Billy Wilder's collaboration with Raymond Chandler produced a superb thriller that helped define film noir, writes Philip French

May 2012

  • Lana Turner and John Garfield in THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE

    Notes and queries
    Notes & Queries: Why does the postman always ring twice?

    Plus: Pool, as played in 60s Chicago; How many witch-trials were there? Has a non-human ever been elected?

July 2011

  • Serenade by James M Cain – review

    by Joanna Hines

June 2011

  • Mildred Pierce - 2011

    Rereading
    Rereading: Mildred Pierce by James M Cain

    Todd Haynes has adapted Mildred Pierce, James M Cain's novel about a divorced mother in the depression, as a sumptuous TV mini-series. But what has been gained and what lost in the process?

October 2001

  • The Coens raise Cain

  • The Coens raise Cain

April 2001

  • Prince of Darkness

    James M Cain's hard-boiled novels of greed, lust and murder made for perfect film noir. But, says William Preston Robertson, the writer's relationship with Hollywood's 'cavemen' was never easy

May 2000

  • Tears in court as couple lose final spin of the wheel

    It was the gambling world's "trial of the century" and it ended in tears this week in Las Vegas. The former girlfriend of the casino millionaire Ted Binion and her lover were jailed for life with a recommendation that they serve at least 20 years for a plot straight out of the pages of pulp novelist James M Cain.
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