Recommended reading - The Postman Always Rings Twice, by James M. Cain (1934)

The Postman Always Rings Twice

by James M. Cain.

 

Description:

“A good, swift, violent story.” – Dashiell Hammett. 

An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one grisly solution — a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve.

First published in 1934, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic of the roman noir. It established James M. Cain as a major novelist with an unsparing vision of America's bleak underside and was acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for The Stranger.

“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 … has acquired a vividness of speech that goes beyond anything I could invent.” – James M. Cain.

Mabel Seeley, on imagination:

 

Imagination is so much harder to face than reality.

– Mabel Seeley.

On this day in music history - Flute Flight, by Sherry Finzer & Mark Holland (2015)

Flute Flight,

by Sherry Finzer & Mark Holland,

was released on June 30, 2015.

On this day in music history - The album Queen Bee: The Antone's Collection, by Sue Foley (2009)

Queen Bee: The Antone's Collection

by Sue Foley

was released on June 30, 2009.

On this day in movie history - Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

directed by James Mangold,

written by Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth and James Mangold,

was released in the United States on June 30, 2023.

Music by John Williams.

Cast:

Harrison Ford, Toby Jones, Antonio Banderas, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelsen, Boyd Holbrook, John Rhys-Davies, Thomas Kretschmann, Olivier Richters, Jill Winternitz, Shaunette Renée Wilson, Alaa Safi, Mark Killeen, Rachel Kwok, Clément Osty, Martin McDougall, Andy M. Milligan, Joe Gallina, Nasser Memarzia, Sam Sharma, Corrado Invernizzi, Holly Lawton, Ethann Isidore, David Stokes, Imogen Inman, Kate Doherty, Gary Fannin, Barnaby Chambers, Charles Hagerty, Jasper Wild, Stephane Fichet, Piyush Bhawsar, Ryan Dickson, Lily Catalifo, Kathryn Mulholland, Christian Peterson, Daniel Rosenberg, Linus Scheithauer, Thomas Spiteri, Miranda Twumasi.

On this day in movie history - B.B. King: Into the Night (2004)

B.B. King: Into the Night

documentary directed by John Landis and Jeff Okun,

was released in Spain on June 30, 2004.

Featured on the DVD for the movie Into the Night (1985), directed by John Landis.

Cast:

B.B. King, John Landis, Ira Newborn, Forrest J. Ackerman, Domingo Ambriz, Dan Aykroyd, Jeff Goldblum, Beruce Gramian, Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Michelle Pfeiffer, Hadi Sadjadi, Michael Zand.

On this day in movie history - The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

The Outlaw Josey Wales

directed by Clint Eastwood,

written by Philip Kaufman and Sonia Chernus,

based on the novel Gone to Texas by Forest Carter,

was released in the United States on June 30, 1976.

Music by Jerry Fielding.

Cast:

Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Bill McKinney, John Vernon, Paula Trueman, Sam Bottoms, Geraldine Keams, Woodrow Parfrey, Joyce Jameson, Sheb Wooley, Royal Dano, Matt Clark, John Verros, Will Sampson, William O’Connell, John Quade, Frank Schofield, Buck Kartalian, Len Lesser, Doug McGrath, John Russell, Charles Tyner, Bruce M. Fischer, John Mitchum, John Davis Chandler, Tom Roy Lowe, Clay Tanner, Bob Hoy, Madeleine Taylor Holmes, Erik Holland, Cissy Wellman, Faye Hamblin, Danny Green, Stephen Douglas Butler, Frank Cockrell, Kyle Eastwood, Richard Farnsworth, Joseph Hernandez, John Hudkins, Ron Manning, Walter Scott.