115 minutes … interesting backstory to this movie… Warren Steibel (Jewish, of Firing Line fame) always wanted to make a movie and got his buddy Leon Levy (Jewish, of Oppenheimer funds fame) to put up $150,000. Leon Kastle, a Jewish composer, wrote the script and ended up directing the movie after the first director they hired, someone named Marty Scorsese, was unable to work with a small budget … anyway, the movie, originally titled “Dear Martha,” was about a con man and his obese lover who, in the late 1940s, ended up not just defrauding various lonely women, but also killing several of them, as well as a child. They were executed at Sing Sing.

It is a dark and depressing movie, clearly low budget, but well made. Kastle said that he was so disgusted by Bonnie and Clyde, which romanticized and glamorized that story, that he was driven to make a truer depiction on killers. I guess the movie is now considered a “cult classic.” You should see it if you’re not easily disturbed.