A Kiss before Dying
A Kiss before Dying is the movie Robert Wagner made to solve the Prince Valiant problem – he was too pretty and too old-school in a Hollywood that had suddenly gone sweaty and Method, in a nutshell. Prince Valiant was the film he’d made two years earlier, camp nonsense about a Viking prince in the court of King Arthur. Wagner is about as far as he can get from that here, as a handsome college psychopath who decides that the best way to deal with his suddenly pregnant girlfriend Dory (Joanne Woodward) is to get her to have an abortion (the word is never used though “pills” are mentioned). And when that doesn’t … Read more