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A Kiss Before Dying
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304525197
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6304525192
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: June 09, 1997
Running Time: 94 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: June 12, 1956
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Average Rating: 
Rating:  - First Half is Brilliant
He may not have been James Dean, but Robert Wagner delivers a career performance in this sorely neglected sleeper from 1956. The first half is a beautifully shaded dance of death as Wagner plots to rid himself of the inconveniently pregnant Joanne Woodward. He's all sincere insincerity from one rendevous to the next, while she wants desperately to believe, even against all odds. Has there ever been a more cold-hearted manipulator of vulnerable feminine desires. Dory (Woodward) is all whiney expectations, ... Read More
Rating:  - Dated but Amusing
Skinny, sociopathic pretty boy Robert Wagner accidentally knocks dopey, rich girl Dori (Joanne Woodward. He does the right thing by sociopath standards and makes her death look like a suicide. But her suspicious sister and Jeffrey Hunter (who apparently thinks he's Clark Kent) aren't convinced she took her own life. While the acting is on the bad side and I found myself laughing more than a few times during the film I did enjoy it. For me the most interesting part of it was seeing Jeffrey Hunter as someone ... Read More
Rating: - Core evil defined by greed
Greed and evil is dripping from the screen like frosting colors melting in the sun. Watch out for the dead eyes. They will chill you to the core.
Rating: - Much better than the remake, but still not quite there...
The 1955 A Kiss Before Dying is much better than James Dearden's TV-looking remake, but doesn't hold up as well as it could to a second viewing. Gerd Oswald directed many of the best episodes of The Outer Limits but never made much impact on the big screen, and at times this is a little too conventional in its approach to its once taboo subject matter, although he makes a surprisingly decent stab at the unfilmable twist from Ira Levin's novel. But there's still the feeling that he gets more mileage out of the first ... Read More
Rating:  - Robert Quarry alert!
Holly Molly, Count Yorga is in this! I watched an entire scene before realising it was him. Sadly, Drac's understudy appears in a scene of almost self-emoliating unhipness. He plays a DJ who gets his brains blown out all over a typewriter, despite the fact that his wimpy killer was not holding the gun with any great conviction and moving around a lot in a confined space. What with being a DJ and all, you'd think he'd be handy with his arms but he just sits there crying for his mummy. Get a back bone man, you've got ... Read More
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