To read MILDRED PIERCE now is to experience a double vision, in which we confront both how much and how little things have changed. Sidenote-Stanwick was offered the part of Mildred Pierce but turned it down.
Then watch the movies-'Double Indemnity' is exceptional with Barbara Stanwick as the seductress.
It is no accident that that movies based on three (of Cain's novels) helped to define the genre known as film noir * NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF BOOKS *Īfter Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler Cain is the writer most often credited with defining the "hard-boiled", the tough-talking, fast-moving urban stories of violence, sex and money that characterised so much popular film and fiction in America during the 1930s and 40s * GUARDIAN *Ĭain was not just a great hard-boiled novelist but a great novelist, period. Mildred Pierce begins in 1931 with bored Glendale housewife and semi-professional baker Mildred (Kate Winslet) making the impulsive decision to kick her disappointing and disappointed. If you want to take a trip back in time and experience one of the great hard boiled writers, read 'Mildred Pierce' and his other books. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and to claw her. Vivid, gritty, real.this is crime writing at its very best * MY WEEKLY *Ĭain has established a formidable reputation of furious pace, harsh and masterful realism, tough, raw speech right out of the mouths of the people * SATURDAY REVIEW * Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness.
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