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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
Director(s): Leonard Kastle, Donald Volkman
Actors: Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco, Mary Jane Higby, Doris Roberts
Production: Live Home Video
 
IMDB:
7.1
Rotten Tomatoes:
95%
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R
Year:
1970
108 min
186 Views

You might as well

come upstairs.

There's no point

in digging twice.

See, I told you

she wasn't in her bed anymore.

Now take off your coat,

and I'll leave it on the bed.

Mommy's all right now. We were

only playing a game to fool you.

I want my mommy.

I want my mommy.

She's in the cellar

with the nice little puppy...

that Uncle Charles

bought for you.

You remember, she said the puppy would

have to stay in the cellar, didn't she?

Shall we go down to see Mommy playing

with the puppy in the cellar?

Come on, Rainelle.

Hurry up. Go see Mommy.

You can go down now.

Everything's taken care of.

Go upstairs and pack

while I finish up down...

We better

get out of here fast.

Where are we

going now, Ray?

I can arrange a meeting with

a very nice woman in New Orleans.

We can stay there

right through the Mardi Gras.

Wouldn't you like that,

sweetheart?

Yes, darling,

I'd like that.

Hold me.

And you won't make love to her?

Do you have to

ask that again?

Didn't I promise?

I didn't touch Delphine, did I?

After a whole month,

I never laid a hand on her.

Don't you trust me?

Yes, I trust you,

my darling.

We'll spend the rest

of the winter in New Orleans.

This one will be

the absolute last. I promise.

And then in the spring...

Get me the police.

Hello, is this the police?

This is a neighbor

of Mrs. Delphine Downing...

3435 Byron Center Road.

Something's

wrong over there.

How do I know?

I heard a shot. That's how I know.

And now something peculiar

is going on in the cellar.

That's right.

Never mind who I am.

Just get over there.

Who is it?

Just one of her neighbors,

I expect.

Well, get rid of them!

And finish packing!

You won't need that now.

Besides, I never

liked it on you anyway.

Go downstairs.

I'll take care of everything.

- Hello, Martha.

- Time to go to court?

- Are you nervous?

- Yes.

Well, first day's

the worst.

It's going to be a long trial.

You'll get used to it.

At least I'll see Ray again.

It's been four months now.

They tell me

he still loves me, but...

They've been telling me so many lies,

I don't know who to believe anymore.

Well, then, I have

something nice for you.

It's a letter from him.

They're allowing me to give it to you.

Can I be alone with it, please?

I'll... wait for you

over there by the window.

Dear Martha...

I would like to shout

my love for you to the world.

Perhaps someday

when we are old and gray...

we shall have a little time

to spend together.

But no matter what

happens to us...

I want you

to remember one thing.

You, and you alone...

are the one and only woman

I have ever loved.

You are the one and only woman

I will ever love.

Now and beyond the grave.

Ray.

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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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