Tay Garnett

Here is a film operating on a simple enough premise that successfully winds up the tension with the greatest of ease. Just like little mechanical toys start performing their carefully programmed routines when wound up, so do the wonderfully suspenseful elements of Tay Gernett’s Cause for Alarm add on to the stress Ellen lives through in order to protect her innocence all the while preventing anyone from discovering her husband’s dead body in the bedroom upstairs.

The Postman Always Rings Twice Directed by Tay Garnett Written by Harry Ruskin and Niven Busch (screenplay), based on James M. Cain’s novel U.S.A., 1946 Movies provide escapism in most cases, save perhaps for the most ardent art house devotees. They can operate as complete fantasies or slightly heightened extensions of our own reality. In …