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A college student kills his pregnant girlfriend to inherit her fortune in this 1956 thriller based on an Ira Levin novel. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more.
- (4.2K)
- Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
- Gerd Oswald
- 1956-06-12
A Kiss Before Dying is a 1956 American color film noir, 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.
- Robert L. Jacks
- Lionel Newman
- Crown Productions
A Kiss Before Dying is a 1991 American romantic thriller film directed by James Dearden, and based on Ira Levin's 1953 novel of the same name, which won the 1954 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. The drama features Matt Dillon, Sean Young, Max von Sydow, and Diane Ladd.
- $15.4 million
- Robert Lawrence
- $15 million or £8.1 million
- Howard Shore
A Kiss Before Dying is a 1953 novel written by Ira Levin. It won the 1954 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. The book has been adapted twice for the cinema: first in 1956 and later in 1991 . Now a modern crime classic, Levin's story centers on a charming, intelligent man who will stop at nothing, even murder, to get where he wants to go.
- Ira Levin
- 244 pages
- 1953
- June 1953
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).
- (41)
- Robert Wagner
- Gerd Oswald
- Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
A Kiss Before Dying is a taut little thriller about a sociopath who conceives an ingenuous plan to seduce the daughter of a wealthy copper baron. Except she goes and gets pregnant before his plan can come to fruition.
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.
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