A Kiss Before Dying

(1956)

Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.

A young woman who has just become engaged has her life completely shattered when she is raped while on her way home from work.

Two friends pick up a psychopathic escaped convict who tells them that he intends to murder them when the ride is over.

A man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, though her fiancé persuades her to con him out of the fortune they mistakenly assume he possesses.

Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.

A self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.

A Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator.

A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses, and duplicitous dames.

Two undercover agents infiltrate a drug-smuggling ring in Mexico, but neither is aware of the other's identity.

Hit men kill an unresisting victim, and investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins.