Search results
The 2018 Cult Movie Challenge Week 33: Crown International Week--A Kiss Before Dying is the stuff of classic Noir to be sure, but not of the uber-shadowy black-and-white variety. No, Kiss comes in eye-popping 50's color and leaves the darkness for the sordid subject matter. And dark it does get.
A Kiss Before Dying is a film directed by Gerd Oswald with Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith, Joanne Woodward .... Year: 1956. Original title: A Kiss Before Dying. Synopsis: Bud Corliss is an ambitious college student with big plans for himself and an heiress, Dorothy Kingship. But then Dorothy goes and gets herself pregnant.
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 fat...
A Kiss Before Dying (1956) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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.
Ira Levin's "A Kiss Before Dying" novel won the 1954 Edgar Award for Best First Novel.It was Levin's debut, written when he was just 23, and a huge best-seller. However, it would be fifteen years before his second novel appeared - that was "Rosemary's Baby", an even bigger success.
State-run Stoddard University students Bud Corliss and Dorothy Kingship are secretly dating, they not having told anyone for fear of working class Bud not being accepted by Dorothy's hyper-critical father, wealthy businessman Leo Kingship, owner of Kingship Mines.
