Honeymoon Killers

Martha Beck is a sullen, overweight nursing administrator living in Mobile, Alabama, with her elderly mother. Martha's friend submits Martha's name to a "lonely hearts" club, which results in a letter from Raymond Fernandez of New York City. Ray allows Martha to visit him in New York, where he reveals he is a con man who makes his living by seducing and then swindling lonely women. Ray promises Martha he will never sleep with any of the other women, but complicates his promise by marrying pregnant Myrtle Young. Martha gives her a dose of pills, and the two put the