A Kiss Before Dying (Blu-ray)

He had looks, charm... and killer instincts.
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  • Run Time: 1 hours, 34 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: May 3, 2016
  • Originally Released: 1956
  • Label: KL Studio Classics

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User Ratings: 347
Oswald, who never graduated past B-movies and television, makes masterful use of the frame, pitting his dark thriller elements against a full-color, widescreen frame. Full Review
Combustible Celluloid
Aug 29, 2008
Rating: 3/5 -- An excellent screenplay (unoriginal but full of tension), subtle direction by the overlooked and underutilized Oswald, and good photography help gloss over any weaknesses in the performances. Full Review
TV Guide
Oct 30, 2015
Wagner is perfect as the college kid psycho coolly removing the pregnant Woodward from his life. Full Review
Time Out
Jun 24, 2006
It's a gripping version of Ira Levin's best novel. Full Review
Film4
May 24, 2003
This multiple-murder story is an offbeat sort of film, with Robert Wagner portraying a calculating youth who intends to allow nothing to stand in his way to money... Gerd Oswald's restrained direction suits the mood. Full Review
Variety
Mar 26, 2009
Rating: B -- This psychological thriller is penned by Ira Levin, of "Rosemary's Baby" fame... Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Mar 31, 2003
...Lurid color schemes contrast with a dark story...
USA Today
May 30, 1997

Product Description:

Bud Corliss (Robert Wagner) is having trouble being accepted by the family of his comparatively-rich girlfriend, Dorothy Kingship (Joanne Woodward). Dorothy's pregnancy is only going to make matters worse. Instead of working their problems out, however, Bud coldly murders Dorothy and leaves false evidence that she committed suicide. When Dorothy's sister Ellen (Virginia Leith) decides to look into the death, Bud begins to wonder if he won't have to kill again. Lensed by Lucian Ballard, one of Sam Peckipah's favorite cinematographers.

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DARK, REFLECTIVE SUSPENSE CLASSIC. Movie Lover: from LOUISVILLE, KY US -- June, 7, 2016

ONE OF THE UNDENIABLE SUSPENSE CLASSICS OF THE 1950S, THIS ORIGINAL VERSION OF IRA LEVIN'S A KISS BEFORE DYING (A LESS SUCCESSFUL REMAKE WOULD FOLLOW IN 1991), IS A DARK, HAUNTING SUSPENSE CLASSIC, BORDERING ON FILM NOIR. DIRECTOR GERD OSWALD CRAFTS MANY TWISTS AND TURNS FOR THE CHARACTERS, FROM ROBERT WAGNER TO JOANNE WOODWARD, VIRGINA LEITH, JEFFREY HUNTER (IN PARTICULAR), MARY ASTOR AND GEORGE MACREADY. SUSPENSE DEVOTEES OF THE 1950S-1960S, ESPECIALLY THOSE IN THE HITCHCOCKIAN MOLD, WILL FIND THIS AN INTRIGUING ADDITION TO THEIR COLLECTION.


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  • UPC: 738329200787
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