James Mallahan Cain (1892–1977) was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter. He is considered one of the founders of the hardboiled crime genre.
James M. Cain Biography / Wiki
| Name | James M. Cain |
| Also Know | James Cain, James Mallahan Cain |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Writing |
| Place of Birth | Annapolis, Maryland, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1892-07-01 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 85 |
| Deathday | 1977-10-27 |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Double Indemnity | Novel | 1944-06-14 | A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of d… |
| Mildred Pierce | Novel | 1945-10-20 | After her unfaithful husband leaves her, Mildred Pierce proves she can become independent and successful. However winning the approval of her spoiled … |
| The Postman Always Rings Twice | Novel | 1981-03-20 | The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband…. |
| Slightly Scarlet | Novel | 1956-02-29 | Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison into the custody of her sister June, secretary to “reform” politician Frank Jansen. Ben Grace, assoc… |
| The Postman Always Rings Twice | Novel | 1946-05-02 | A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband…. |
| Butterfly | Novel | 1982-02-05 | Jess Tyler lives a quiet life next to an abandoned mining factory by himself in the desert. His life is turned upside down when a sexually provocative… |
| Serenade | Novel | 1956-03-23 | A wealthy woman discovers a vineyard worker with a beautiful operatic singing voice. She helps make him a star but then breaks his heart. He flees in … |
| The Last Turning | Novel | 1939-05-17 | Frank, a hobo, ends up in a garage-truck stop in the middle of nowhere. Nick Marino, its older, kind and naive owner, is married to Cora, a sexy and m… |
| Blockade | Writer | 1938-06-17 | A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along the way he falls in love with a Russian girl whose f… |
| Stand Up and Fight | Screenplay | 1939-01-06 | A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom…. |
| When Tomorrow Comes | Story | 1939-08-11 | Romance and heartbreak walk hand-in-hand when Philip Chagal accidentally meets Helen Lawrence in a restaurant where she is a waitress. Unhappily marri… |
| Money and the Woman | Story | 1940-08-17 | An embezzler’s wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him…. |
| Gypsy Wildcat | Screenplay | 1944-08-02 | In an unspecified Renaissance kingdom, no sooner has Anube’s gypsy tribe encamped near Baron Tovar’s village when Count Orso is found murdered. The wi… |
| Everybody Does It | Story | 1949-10-24 | Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more. So when she decides to try again to… |
| Interlude | Screenplay | 1968-05-01 | A young female journalist in London falls in love with a married orchestra conductor…. |
| Interlude | Story | 1957-10-30 | A young woman touring Germany is caught between a married symphony conductor and a doctor from back home…. |
| Wife, Husband and Friend | Novel | 1939-03-03 | Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer … |
| Girl in the Cadillac | Novel | 1995-10-24 | A runaway teenage girl and a drifter rob a bank, hit the road to elude the Texas Rangers and find love on the run…. |
| Double Indemnity | Novel | 1973-10-13 | A scheming wife lures an insurance investigator into helping murder her husband and then declare it an accident. The investigator’s boss, not knowing … |
| Buai Laju-Laju | Novel | 2004-09-09 | Zaiton seduces a drifter named Amran into murdering her elderly husband, Ibrahim, to get his money and land…. |
| The Shanghai Gesture | Writer | 1941-12-25 | A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint…. |
| She Made Her Bed | Story | 1934-04-26 | “Duke” Gordon (Robert Armstrong), a circus lion-tamer, tries to tames his wife, Laura (Sally Eilers), just as he does his lions. But she is a one-man … |
| Passion | Novel | 1998-10-22 | György Fehèr’s aim was to “make a film which is similar to the last salvaged print of a long lost filmâ€. The passions he investigates are cent… |
| Ossessione | Novel | 1944-04-08 | Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna as they plan to get rid of her older husband…. |
| National Theatre Live: Obsession | Novel | 2017-05-11 | Gino is a drifter, down-at-heel and magnetically handsome. At a road side restaurant he encounters husband and wife, Joseph and Hanna. Irresistibly at… |
| Algiers | Dialogue | 1938-01-16 | Pepe Le Moko is a notorious thief, who escaped from France. Since his escape, Moko became a resident and leader of the immense Casbah of Algiers. Fren… |
| Novel | Mildred Pierce depicts an overprotective, self-sacrificing mother during the Great Depression who finds herself separated from her husband, opening a … | ||
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Creator | Mildred Pierce depicts an overprotective, self-sacrificing mother during the Great Depression who finds herself separated from her husband, opening a … | ||
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