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A Kiss Before Dying

A Kiss Before Dying (1956)

Thriller, Drama, Crime, Romantic, Mystery | United States

Director: Gerd Oswald

BBC2 | Wednesday 7 January 2009 | 10:00

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Rating: 6.7/10

SYNOPSIS

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...

Actors

Writer: Lawrence Roman, Ira Levin

Producer: Robert L. Jacks

RUNTIME: 94 min

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