A Kiss Before Dying - BLU-RAY

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.

After doctor Walter Bernsdorf (Paul Lukas) slays his unfaithful wife (Gloria Stuart) in a fit of jealous rage, his best friend and attorney Paul Held (Frank Morgan) promises to do all he can to spare him from the gallows. As he crafts a temporary insanity defense, the counselor starts perceiving echoes of the dead woman's behavior in his own spouse (Nancy Carroll)... and his snowballing suspicions might foment another tragedy. Pre-Code thriller from director James Whale co-stars Walter Pidgeon, Donald Cook. 67 min. Standard; Soundtrack English; Subtitles English; audio commentary; theatrical trailer.

The legendary James Cagney (White Heat) is his final great gangster role. KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE offers Cagney at his nastiest. The star plays career criminal Ralph Cotter, a lowlife maniac who doesn't care about anything except his next; kill. After violently busting out from prison and murdering his partner, the cold-blooded mobster satisfies a pent up lust for violence in an unstoppable and vicious crime spree. Dirty cops, Inspector Charles Webber (Ward Bond) and Lieutenant John Reese (Barton MacLane) try to strong-arm the fascinating creep, but he turns the table on them and blackmails them with the help of a crooked lawyer, Keith 'Cherokee' Mandon (Luther Adler). Upon it's theatrical , the film was banned in the state of Ohio as 'a sordid sadistic presentation of brutality and an extreme presentation of crime with explicit steps in commission.' the wonderful cast includes Barbara Payton, Helena Carter, Steve Brodie, Rhys Williams and William Frawley. Stylishly directed by Gordon Douglas (ONLY THE VALIANT).