The Honeymoon Killers The Honeymoon Killers

The Honeymoon Killers

Leonard Kastle

 
The Honeymoon Killers (Criterion DVD)

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  • United States
  • 1970
  • 107 minutes
  • Black and White
  • 1.85:1
  • English
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  • Spine #200

Martha Beck (Shirley Stoler) is sullen, overweight and heartbreakingly alone. Desperate for affection, she joins Aunt Carrie’s Friendship Club and strikes up a correspondence with Ray Fernandez (Tony Lo Bianco), a suave, charismatic smooth talker who could be the man of her dreams—or a wicked con artist bound for trouble. Based on a true story and filmed in documentary-style black and white, The Honeymoon Killers is a stark portrayal of the desperate lengths to which a lonely heart will go to find true love, from brutally immoral killings to a passion that transcends all bounds.

Cast

Shirley StolerMartha Beck
Tony Lo BiancoRay Fernandez
Mary Jane HigbyJanet Fay
Doris RobertsBunny
Kip McArdleDelphine Downing
Marilyn ChrisMyrtle Young
Dortha DuckworthMrs. Beck
Barbara CasonEvelyn Varden
Ann HarrisDoris Acker

Credits

DirectorLeonard Kastle
ScreenplayLeonard Kastle
ProducerWarren Steibel
Associate producerPaul Asselin
EditingStan Warnow and Richard Brophy
SoundFred Kamiel
Music selected from the works ofGustav Mahler

Disc Features

  • New digital transfer, enhanced for widescreen televisions
  • New interview with writer/director Leonard Kastle
  • Illustrated essay by Scott Christianson (Condemned: Inside the Sing Sing Death House) on the true crime story of “Lonely Hearts Killers” Ray Fernandez and Martha Beck
  • Original theatrical trailer
  • New essay by critic Gary Giddins
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
  • Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition

Film Essays

The Honeymoon Killers

By Gary GiddinsJuly 21, 2003

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The Honeymoon Killers

Remembering Leonard Kastle

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Film Essays

The Honeymoon Killers

By Gary GiddinsJuly 21, 2003

Rarely has schizophrenia been closer to the surface of American cinema than in the . . . Read more »