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A Kiss Before Dying is a novel by Ira Levin. It has been adapted to film twice; a 1956 version starring Robert Wagner and Joanne Woodward, and a 1991 version starring Matt Dillon and Sean Young.

1956 film

The 1956 version was color film noir directed by Gerd Oswald.

Robert Wagner plays Bud Corliss, a student who is wooing Dorothy Kingship (Joanne Woodward
) purely for her father's mining fortune. When he finds she is pregnant he realises she is likely to be disinherited, Bud stages what appears to be a suicide. After a couple of months her sister, Ellen, finds evidence to question the suicide verdict, but by then has a new boyfriend of her own who turns out to be Bud.

Trivia

Many of the scenes were shot at University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. The movie was filmed in CinemaScope and Deluxe Color. Wagner and Jeffrey Hunter were paired again in director Nicholas Ray's The True Story of Jesse James. Director Oswald worked mainly in TV directing episodes of Star Trek and The Outer Limits. Oswald later directed another film noir, the cult film The Screaming Mimi in 1958.

Main cast (1956)

Robert Wagner
- Bud Corliss
Jeffrey Hunter
- Gordon Grant; a math teacher/cop
Virginia Leith - Ellen Kingship
Joanne Woodward
- Dorothy Kingship
Mary Astor
- Mrs. Corliss

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