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A Kiss Before Dying is a 1956 American color film noir, [1] directed by Gerd Oswald in his directorial debut. The screenplay was written by Lawrence Roman, based on Ira Levin 's 1953 novel of the same name, which won the 1954 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. [2] The film stars Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith, Mary Astor, and ...
A Kiss Before Dying: Directed by Gerd Oswald. With Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith, Joanne Woodward. A ruthless college student resorts to murder in an attempt to marry an heiress.
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- Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
- Gerd Oswald
- 1956-06-12
Amoral Bud Corliss (Robert Wagner) pursues young heiress Dorie Kingship (Joanne Woodward) in the hopes of getting his hands on the fortune amassed by her father (George Macready). But after Dorie ...
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- Robert Wagner
- Gerd Oswald
- Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
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Summaries. A ruthless college student resorts to murder in an attempt to marry an heiress. Student Bud Corliss is wooing Dorother Kingship purely for her father's mining fortune. When he finds she is pregnant he realises she is likely to be disinherited, so cleverly stages her suicide. After a couple of months her sister back home finds ...
Kiss Before Dying, A (1956) -- (Movie Clip) If Certain Details Were Omitted Characters discussed but never seen before the murder (disguised as suicide) of Dory (Joanne Woodward), George MacReady her father, Virginia Leith her sister, Howard Petrie the police chief and Jeffrey Hunter, whom we have met, as the college tutor and weirdly, we learn, also part-time cop Gordon, with the culprit ...
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Synopsis. Budd Corliss (Robert Wagner) is an ambitious, poor boy from the wrong-side-of-the-tracks who murders his girlfriend Dorothy (Joanne Woodward) -- making the death look like a suicide -- when her pregnancy eliminates his chances of being accepted by her wealthy family. Her sister Ellen (Virginia Leith), refusing to believe that Dorothy ...
