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Bud Corliss
Jeffrey Hunter
Gordon Grant
Virginia Leith
Ellen Kingship
Joanne Woodward
Dorothy ('Dorie') Kingship
Mary Astor
Mrs. Corliss
George Macready
Leo Kingship
Robert Quarry
Dwight Powell
Howard Petrie
Howard Chesser, Chief of Police
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Annabelle Koch
Marlene Felton
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Review 1DiscussionA review by John Chard
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Written by John Chard on Sat Nov 18 2017
Love conquers all...
A Kiss Before Dying is directed by Gerd Oswald and adapted to screenplay by Lawrence Roman from the novel of the same name written by Ira Levin. It stars Robert Wagner, Joanne Woodward, Virginia Leith, Jeffrey Hunter and Mary Astor. A CinemaScope/De Luxe Color production, music is by Lionel Newman and cinematography by Lucien Ballard.
Plot basically finds Wagner as a scheming pretty boy willing to commit murder in order to reach the riches of an inheritance. Story bubbles away nicely as Bud Corlis (Wagner) and Dorothy Kingship (Woodward), he sly and distant - she vuln...
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- based on novel or book
- pregnancy
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- film noir
- murder
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