A KISS BEFORE DYING
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A Cert. HIS __ squalid, halfbaked thriller about a young ex serviceman college student who pushes his girl-friend off a skyscraper, murders again to cover his tracks, and is prevented from committing a third homicide only by the interposition of a twenty-ton bulldozer is apparently offered to us as further evidence of the neuroses that can be induced by a doting Mom in a broken home. It’s becoming a hackneyed theme, and when it is handled by enept players, ineffectively cirected — and that’s what happens here -it persuades no one.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 939, 9 August 1957, Page 30
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95A KISS BEFORE DYING New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 939, 9 August 1957, Page 30
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