The 59th Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival will feature a tribute to 1940s American screen star John Garfield. “We are excited to remember the exceptional but somewhat forgotten career of a ...

Garfield, known for such movies as The Postman Always Rings Twice, Four Daughters, and Body and Soul, made a name for himself by playing brooding working-class characters in the 1940s.

Thanks to his ability to truthfully portray any situation, directors and screenwriters were not afraid to place Garfield’s characters in extreme situations, as in the film noir classic “The ...