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Film The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) and The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

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The Castro features two noir classics, each sporting a bleached-blond bombshell. Tay Garnett's 1946 adaptation of The Postman Always Twice sets up a delicious proposition: that the right kind of woman, stuck tending a bum marriage and a highway cafe, could compel a restless drifter to plan a murder. Lana Turner does just that, staking her claim to the femme-fatale archetype with every swing of the hips and pout of the lips. If Postman is streamlined entertainment, then The Lady from Shanghai threatens to be something more under Orson Welles' deconstructive direction. Rita Hayworth stars, shorn of her trademark red curls at Welles' request.

– Max Goldberg

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