THE HONEYMOON KILLERS d: Leonard Kastle

The Honeymoon Killers (1970)
Direction and Screenplay: Leonard Kastle. Cast: Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco, Mary Jane Higby, Doris Roberts
 
From the moment we hear Gustave Mahler’s highly dramatic music in the opening scene of The Honeymoon Killers, Leonard Kastle’s imaginative thriller and its cast of little-known players take off.
Shirley Stoler plays a corpulent hospital nurse who finds love — of a sort — by joining a lonely-hearts correspondence club. Her ad is answered by a Spanish gigolo (Tony Lo Bianco) in the business of marrying lonely women, taking their money, and abandoning them. However, the two miscreant creatures fall in love. Stoler instantly sticks her senile mother in a nursing home so she can accompany her new lover in his [...]