The Honeymoon Killers

United States

1970

107 Min

Black and White

1.85:1

English

Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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CAST Martha Beck, Ray Fernandez, Janet Fay, Bunny, Delphine Downing, Myrtle Young, Mrs. Beck, Evelyn Varden, Doris Acker

ED Stan Warnow, Richard Brophy

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 a lonely heart will go to find true love, from brutally immoral killings to a passion that transcends all bounds. —The Criterion Collection

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trolley freak

2Feb12

Kastle's only film in the director's chair is an eerie and quite brilliant based-on-fact account of an overweight nurse and a gigolo who scheme to swindle and murder wealthy older women. With a limited budget and expert use of music by Mahler, the film is bleak and unsentimental and doesn't flinch at all from showing the brutality of the horrific murders. A neglected cult classic that deserves to be better known.....

dw

22May11

when you say that, you dont understand Scorsese at all, kid
Zachary W

21Jan12

Forgive my "ignorance," but how does my love for a film that Scorsese was fired from indicate that I don't understand him?