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The Honeymoon Killers • The Next Reel
“Now that you know everything about me, you still love me?”
A Twisted Love Story and a Director's Only Film
The Honeymoon Killers, released in 1970, is a crime drama based on the real-life story of Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, the infamous "Lonely Hearts Killers" who murdered as many as 20 women in the 1940s. The film was originally set to be directed by a young Martin Scorsese, but after a start too slow for the budget, the project was handed over to the producer’s friend and roommate Leonard Kastle, a composer and opera director with no prior filmmaking experience. Kastle had written…
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