Kino Lorber have confirmed that they will add to their Blu-ray catalog director Gerd Oswald's film
A Kiss Before Dying (1956), starring Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith, Joanne Woodward, and Mary Astor. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market early next year.
Synopsis: Robert Wagner gambled with his clean-cut image to play the ruthless, conniving killer in this unrelenting noir thriller. Based on the novel by suspense master Ira Levin "Deathtrap,"
A Kiss Before Dying is riveting, sure-fire entertainment you can't miss.
Wagner is Bud Corliss, a darkly handsome college boy so obsessed with wealth that he'll do anything to get it. When his rich girlfriend Dorothy (Woodward) gets pregnant and is threatened with disinheritance, Bud stages her suicide, sending her plummeting from the roof of a high-rise. It's the perfect crime... until Dorothy's sister Ellen (Leith) begins to unravel Bud's deadly scheme. Cinematography by Lucien Ballard (Stanley Kubrick's
The Killing, Sam Peckinpah's
The Wild Bunch).