TCM is on honeymoon

This week TCM will be featuring the 1970 classic tale of romance and death, THE
HONEYMOON KILLERS. Sounds pleasing, doesn’t it?

The movie is as follows :When Martha Beck, an unmarried,
200-pound nurse in a Mobile, Alabama, hospital, sends her name in to a lonely
hearts club, she receives a letter from Spanish immigrant Ray Fernandez. A
meeting is arranged, and Martha is immediately attracted to the suave gigolo.
She persuades Ray to invite her to stay at his home in New York, where he tells
her of his practice of using his appearance and charm to persuade middle-aged
women to part with their money. Soon Martha, posing as Ray’s sister, joins her
new lover in his travels. They start by swindling Doris, a New Jersey
schoolteacher, but soon Martha’s jealousy causes her to add murder to their list
of crimes. When Ray marries Myrtle Young, a pregnant Arkansas woman, to obtain
$4,000 for legitimizing the baby, Martha gives the woman an overdose of sleeping
pills. Later, in Albany, Martha bludgeons to death rich widow Janet Fay while
Ray strangles her. In Grand Rapids, Michigan, they move in with Delphine
Downing, an attractive widow with a 2-year-old daughter, but when Ray gets the
widow pregnant, the insanely jealous Martha shoots her and drowns the child.
Aware that Ray has been consistently unfaithful to her, Martha telephones the
police and discloses the murders. While awaiting trial, Martha and Ray
correspond with each other, still avowing their love.