The Honeymoon Killers Blu-ray

Martha Beck (Shirley Stoler) is sullen, overweight, and lonely. Desperate for affection, she joins Aunt Carrie’s Friendship Club and strikes up a correspondence with Ray Fernandez (Tony Lo Bianco), a charismatic smooth talker who could be the man of her dreams—or a degenerate con artist. Based on a shocking true story and shot in documentary-style black and white by the confident and inspired Leonard Kastle, in what would be his only foray into filmmaking, The Honeymoon Killers is a stark portrayal of the desperate lengths to which a lonely heart will go to find true love.
 
Film Info
 
United States 
1969
107 minutes
Black & White
1.85:1
English 
Spine #200
 
Special Features
 
New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Interview with writer-director Leonard Kastle from 2003
Love Letters, a new interview program by Robert Fischer, featuring actors Tony Lo Bianco and Marilyn Chris and editor Stan Warnow
“Dear Martha . . . ,” a new video essay by writer Scott Christianson, author of Condemned: Inside the Sing Sing Death House
Trailer
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by critic Gary Giddins