“Love is a bitch...Called Martha.”
Martha Beck, an obese nurse who is desperately lonely, joins a "correspondence club" and finds a romantic pen pal in Ray Fernandez. Martha falls hard for Ray, and is intent on sticking with him even when she discovers he's a con man who seduces lonely single women, kills them and then takes their money. She poses as Ray's sister and joins Ray on a wild killing spree, fueled by her lingering concern that Ray will leave her for one of his marks.
Leonard Kastle
Warren Steibel
Leonard Kastle
Oliver Wood
Shirley Stoler
Martha
Tony Lo Bianco
Ray
Mary Jane Higby
Janet
Doris Roberts
Bunny
Kip McArdle
Delphine
Marilyn Chris
Myrtle
Dortha Duckworth
Mother
Barbara Cason
Evelyn
Ann Harris
Doris
Mary Breen
Rainelle
Elsa Raven
Matron
Mary Engel
Lucy
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The "anti-Bonnie and Clyde," as described by the film's director Leonard Kastle. Who? Yeah, I never heard of him either. He made one movie and it's 1) a classic, 2) part of the Criterion Collection, and 3) one of François Truffaut's favorites. It was also a movie Martin Scorsese started to direct bu...
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