– Frank Chambers Jessica Lange – Cora Smith/Papadakis John Colicos – Nick Papadakis Michael Lerner – Mr. Katz John P. Ryan – Ezra Liam Kennedy Anjelica Huston – Madge Gorland William Traylor – Kyle Sackett Ron Flagge – Shoeshine Man William Newman – Man from Home Town Chuck Liddell – Boy Scout Albert Henderson – Art Beeman Christopher Lloyd – Salesman Soundtrack On May 14, 2012 Intrada Records released Michael Small's complete score for the first time. Release and reception The film was screened out of competition at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. Upon release, the film was poorly received by many critics, who felt that the remake of the 1946 film of the same name was wasted. They also believed the ending was "very weak" compared to the original film. They also criticized that the meaning of the title is not explained in the remake, which led to confusion among viewers. Jack Nicholson later said "If you ran a question through this industry about The Postman Always Rings Twice, most people would surmise that it wasn't successful. That is not true. I know it made money, because I received overages, so it must've grossed about as much as Chinatown and much more than Carnal Knowledge. But people are anxious to disqualify it." The film has since been received more favorably; it scores a 79% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with 11 positive reviews and three negative. Kerry Segrave and Linda Martin praised the "charged chemistry" between Nicholson and Lange, and stated that Nicholson admitted that he was smitten with his co-star, remarking that she was a "big consensus movie sex bomb". The film was nominated by the American Film Institute in 2002 for the AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions list. The star of the 1946 version, Lana Turner, did not watch the remake, but said she had seen advertisements and blurbs on television that made her sick: she resented how the studio "turned it into such pornographic trash". Notes Warner Bros. Pictures currently holds the rights to the film. Turner Entertainment currently holds only the 1946 version (as part of pre-May 20, 1986 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer library), not the second adaptation (since Lorimar produced this film), but WB owns both films. See also Le Dernier Tournant, the 1939 French film adaptation of the novel Ossessione ("Obsession"), the 1943 Italian film adaptation of the novel The Postman Always Rings Twice, the 1946 American