The Honeymoon Killers
Martha Beck (Shirley Stoler) is sullen, overweight, and lonely. Desperate for affection, she joins Aunt Carrie’s Friendship Club and strikes up a correspondence with Ray Fernandez (Tony Lo Bianco), a charismatic smooth talker who could be the man of her dreams—or a degenerate con artist. Based on a shocking true story and shot in documentary-style black and white by the confident and inspired Leonard Kastle, in what would be his only foray into filmmaking, The Honeymoon Killers is a stark portrayal of the desperate lengths to which a lonely heart will go to find true love.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Interview with writer-director Leonard Kastle from 2003
- Love Letters, a new interview program by Robert Fischer, featuring actors Tony Lo Bianco and Marilyn Chris and editor Stan Warnow
- “Dear Martha . . . ,” a new video essay by writer Scott Christianson, author of Condemned: Inside the Sing Sing Death House
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Gary Giddins
New cover by Aesthetic Apparatus
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Interview with writer-director Leonard Kastle from 2003
- Love Letters, a new interview program by Robert Fischer, featuring actors Tony Lo Bianco and Marilyn Chris and editor Stan Warnow
- “Dear Martha . . . ,” a new video essay by writer Scott Christianson, author of Condemned: Inside the Sing Sing Death House
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Gary Giddins
New cover by Aesthetic Apparatus
Cast
- Shirley Stoler
- Martha Beck
- Tony Lo Bianco
- Ray Fernandez
- Mary Jane Higby
- Janet Fay
- Doris Roberts
- Bunny
- Kip McArdle
- Delphine Downing
- Marilyn Chris
- Myrtle Young
- Dortha Duckworth
- Mrs. Beck
- Barbara Cason
- Evelyn Varden
- Ann Harris
- Doris Acker
Credits
- Director
- Leonard Kastle
- Written by
- Leonard Kastle
- Producer
- Warren Steibel
- Associate producer
- Paul Asselin
- Editors
- Stan Warnow
- Editors
- Richard Brophy
- Sound
- Fred Kamiel
- Music selected from the works of
- Gustav Mahler
- Director of photography
- Oliver Wood
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