The Honeymoon Killers Page #2

Synopsis: In the early 1950s, Martha Beck, who lives with her slightly senile mother, is the head nurse in a Mobile, Alabama hospital. She is bitter about her life, she not having male companionship in large part because she is overweight, while her bitterness in turn does not endear her to people. She is initially angry with her best friend, Bunny, for signing her up to a lonely hearts club, but eventually decides to give it a try. Through it, she meets Ray Fernandez, a suave Spanish immigrant living in New York, he who contacted Martha as the first through the club. After Ray's trip to Mobile to meet Martha, they fall in love. Upon a subsequent visit Martha makes to Ray in New York - which leads to her being fired in part for her time off work - he decides to be up front with her: that she is not only not his "first" but that he is really a con man who, primarily through the club, seduces then bilks lonely women of their money. Pretending to be his sister to prospective targets, Martha decides
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Production: Live Home Video
 
IMDB:
7.1
Rotten Tomatoes:
95%
R
Year:
1970
108 min
172 Views


if I gave her a sleeping pill?

No. I want

to be alone too.

Here, Mama.

You can take your vitamin.

But I already had

my vitamin pill this morning.

You know I forgot

to give it to you this morning.

- This one looks different.

- It's the new kind I got at the hospital.

How she babies me.

Did you find your record,

Mrs. Beck?

Yes, I did. See? This is

the record I found for Raymond.

I want you to play it

because I like him.

He's the nicest beau

you ever had, Martha.

He's the Latin from Manhattan.

Oh, Mama,

that's not funny.

No, I think it's charming...

a record in my honor.

Thank you, bella signora.

Who wants to rumba

with me?

I do.

I do.

Do it yourself. We'll watch.

She's asleep.

Let's put her

in the bedroom.

No. She won't

know a thing.

Here.

Give me your hand.

Don't be a shy nurse.

Darling, please don't cry again.

I wouldn't be able

to get on the train.

I can't help it.

I didn't think

you'd be going so soon.

If I'm not home

when those icons come C.O. D...

I'll have lost

hundreds of dollars.

I couldn't even have had today

if it weren't for your loan.

I would have to be back in New York

today before the banks close.

- Yes?

- Special delivery for Miss Beck.

I'm Miss Beck.

Thank you.

Bunny?

Bunny! Bunny!

Bunny, let me in! Bunny!

What?

I don't believe it.

Were the police there?

No, of course you shouldn't

call the police.

You're wonderful,

Bunny.

She can't live

without me?

Can't I talk

to the poor darling?

Oh, no. She doesn't even

know I'm calling.

I'm calling you

from my apartment.

Oh, you don't know

how sick she is from all that gas.

We can thank our lucky stars

that I got to her in time.

What a story

for the newspapers.

What?

Oh, get away from her.

Leave her alone.

Ray? Um... Oh, no.

That was my new little puppy.

He was jumpin' all over Martha.

I was afraid he was gonna wake her up.

Did I say that?

Oh, well, uh...

I'm just so nervous,

I don't know what I'm sayin'.

Oh, no. She's here

in my apartment, in my bed.

Oh, I wouldn't leave her alone.

I don't know what she'd do.

Oh, no. She-She

can't talk to you.

She's unconscious.

Ray. Ray.

I wanna die.

I wanna die.

I can hear her.

Let me talk to her.

Now, Martha.

Martha, look at me.

It's Bunny.

Bunny.

Ray is on the phone.

No, Ray, she won't

come to the phone.

She says you don't love her

and she wants to die.

She says you'll read about it

in the papers when she kills herself.

Tell her I love her.

Wait a minute, Ray.

He says he loves you.

Ray, I think she'll

come to the phone now.

Hello? Ray?

Darling?

I didn't mean it.

Ray, listen.

You gotta come down here.

If you don't,

I-I'll kill myself. I swear.

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Leonard Kastle

Leonard Gregory Kastle (February 11, 1929 – May 18, 2011) was an American opera composer, librettist, and director, although he is best known as the writer/director of the 1969 film, The Honeymoon Killers, his only venture into the cinema, for which he did all his own research. He was an adjunct member of the SUNY Albany music faculty.Following his high school education in Mount Vernon, New York, Kastle began his musical training at the Juilliard School of Music (1938–40). From 1940-42, he attended the Mannes Music School and later studied composition at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia (1944–50), earning a B.A. in 1950. While at the Curtis Institute, he held scholarships in composition with Rosario Scalero, Gian-Carlo Menotti and Samuel Barber, and a piano scholarship with Isabelle Vengerova. He attended Columbia University from 1947 to 1950.In 1956, Kastle composed a thirteen-minute "made-to-measure" opera, titled The Swing, for two singers, a speaking part, and piano accompaniment. It was commissioned by and broadcast on the NBC television network on Sunday, June 10, 1956, at noon. He also wrote The Pariahs, about the sinking of the whaler Essex, a trilogy of operas about the Shakers known under the collective title The Passion of Mother Ann: A Sacred Festival Play, a children's opera called Professor Lookalike and the Children, a piano concerto, sonatas for piano and violin, and three unproduced screenplays, Wedding at Cana, Change of Heart, and Shakespeare's Dog.In a 2003 interview for the Criterion Collection, he said that no producer wanted Wedding at Cana, just another Honeymoon Killers, which he did not want to do. After The Honeymoon Killers, Kastle returned to teaching and composing. After the Criterion release of the film, he was rediscovered by a new generation of cult film enthusiasts and occasionally attended film-related events such as the Ed Wood Film Festival in 2007, where he served on the panel of judgesKastle died May 18, 2011, at his home in Westerlo, New York, at the age of 82. more…

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