The Rap Sheet: Cain Goes to the Cinema

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Cain Goes to the Cinema

In an excellent essay for the Los Angeles Review of Books, author Steve Erickson looks back at James M. Cain, his novel The Postman Always Rings Twice, and Hollywood’s response to both.

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QUOTABLE CRIME

“I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try to write as the character would write, and I never forget that the average man, from the fields, the streets, the bars, the offices, and even the gutters of his country, has acquired a vividness of speech that goes beyond anything I could invent, and that if I stick to this heritage, this logos of the American countryside, I shall attain a maximum of effectiveness with very little effort.”
— James M. Cain, from the preface to Double Indemnity