Short description
Robert Wagner gambled with his clean-cut image to play a ruthless, conniving killer in this unrelenting thriller co-starring Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith, Joanne Woodward and Mary Astor. Based on Ira Levin's novel, A Kiss Before Dying stars Wagner as Bud Corliss, a darkly handsome college boy so obsessed with wealth that he'll do anything to get it.
Long description
Robert Wagner gambled with his clean-cut image to play a ruthless, conniving killer in this unrelenting thriller co-starring Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith, Joanne Woodward and Mary Astor. Based on Ira Levin's novel, A Kiss Before Dying stars Wagner as 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 Eileen (Leith) begins to unravel Bud's deadly scheme.