THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946)

Drifter John Garfield goes to work at the roadside restaurant owned by Cecil Kellaway and his much younger wife, Lana Turner. She won’t abandon the restaurant to run away with him, so they decide to kill her husband. They pay for the crime in different ways, but they both pay. A 1981 remake starred Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange.