A Kiss Before Dying 1956 123movies

Watch: A Kiss Before Dying 1956 123movies, Full Movie Online – Student Bud Corliss is wooing Dorother Kingship purely for her father’s mining fortune. When he finds she is pregnant he realises she is likely to be disinherited, so cleverly stages her suicide. After a couple of months her sister back home finds evidence to question the suicide verdict, but by then has a new boyfriend of her own….
Plot: A college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.
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	6.7/10 Votes: 3,994
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Reviews:

Authentic Look at a Popular 1950’s Location
True, the story line is a bit noir for a Technicolor Cinemascope production, but when one realizes that Tucson was at the time a popular and inexpensive location for John Wayne films and the musical Oklahoma! also in glorious color under the blazing Arizona sun, it begins to make sense — at least in terms of getting out of nearby California where the visible smog at the time was far greater than it is even today.

I saw several of the exterior scenes of this film being made, and wondered whether the final cut would amount to much of anything. Robert Wagner seemed very young for the part, and almost frighteningly thin in stature. Moreover, his acting ability had not yet developed to the extent of that displayed by his contemporary Joanne Woodward. But it was obvious to all that the production itself and the supporting cast were professional to the core.

Author Ira Levin was very popular at the time, something of the sort of writer one reads today in Robin Cook, Jonathan Kellerman, Stuart Woods, etc. In other words, not really a Raymond Chandler or even a Michael Connelly. That explains why so many recent viewers seem able to catch the adumbrations in the film early on. Potboilers lack the complexity of truly great detective fiction because the characters are stock heroes and heavys.

The view looking down from the top of the old 12-story Valley National Bank building (portrayed in the film as the city hall), even though insignificant by today’s height standards, is just as scary as it was then. Many of the other locations like the resort portrayed as a grand estate have been transformed or have simply disappeared. And those really cool “rides” are now languishing in automobile museums.

A Charming Killer And Two Sisters
1956 marks the year Robert Wagner went over to the dark side. In The Mountain he plays Spencer Tracy’s spoiled younger brother and in A Kiss Before Dying, Wagner is a charming, but quite ruthless young man looking to better himself through bedroom skills.

In fact impregnating Joanne Woodward might have done the trick in many cases. Normally they’d have gotten married and a reluctant father would have been happy just to protect his daughter’s good name. However in Joanne’s case and in her sister Virginia Leith’s case, their father is puritanical George MacReady who long ago tossed their mom on the street because of an ancient indiscretion. Joanne knows full well that this could be her fate. Wagner knows if he’s exposed as the dirty dog who knocked her up, MacReady will give him problems too.

So to extricate himself Wagner plans a quite deliberate murder of Woodward. When it happens Leith isn’t convinced its suicide even with a cryptic note. But young police detective Jeffrey Hunter likes her anyway. The story begins when Leith begins her own investigation and Wagner starts courting Leith.

Robert Wagner shows his acting chops in this film. He was like that other contract player at 20th Century Fox Tyrone Power who kept pressing for roles to show what he could do as well. Both of course eventually got them. Joanne Woodward is a year away from her career breakthrough in The Three Faces Of Eve and she’s sweet and tender as the naive kid in the clutches of a ruthless charmer. And George MacReady can be as evil as a puritan as well as the most diabolical of villains in which he’s usually cast.

A Kiss Before Dying is not a bad film, but with someone like an Alfred Hitchcock directing it would have been great. As it is, it’s entertaining, but falls short of being a classic.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 34 min (94 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Approved
Genre Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Director Gerd Oswald
Writer Lawrence Roman, Ira Levin
Actors Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix 4-Track Stereo (35 mm magnetic prints), Mono (Western Electric Recording) (35 mm optical prints)
Aspect Ratio 2.55 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length (10 reels)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process CinemaScope (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm