Deaths of note: Ferenc Madl, Leonard Kastle
Ferenc Madl, 80, who served as a Cabinet minister in Hungary’s first post-communist government, then as the country’s president, died May 29 in Budapest. The cause of death was not reported.
Mr. Madl, who studied local and international law, was the author of 20 books, some of them about the process of European integration. He earned a law degree in 1955 and was a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. After communist rule ended in Hungary, he served as the nation’s minister of education from 1993 to 1994, then held the largely ceremonial post of president from 2000 to 2005.
Leonard Kastle
‘Honeymoon Killers’ director
When Leonard Kastle’s debut movie as a writer and director, “The Honeymoon Killers,” was released in 1970, critics raved over the grimly realistic, low-budget, black-and-white crime drama about a lowlife lothario and his overweight nurse lover whose partnership in conning lonely women leads to murder.
“ ‘The Honeymoon Killers,’ ” the Los Angeles Times’ Kevin Thomas wrote in his 1970 review, “is the kind of movie that restores your faith in the possibilities for the commercial American cinema.”
“This extraordinary little movie,” Thomas wrote, “belongs to that long but now virtually extinct line of B movies that examines the dark side of American life with a perception and honesty traditionally lacking in our expensive escapist fare.”
Mr. Kastle, whose first film was destined to be his last, died May 18 at his home in Westerlo, N.Y., of undisclosed causes. He was 82.
Mr. Kastle is considered one of America’s most intriguing one-shot movie directors. Neither he nor producer Warren Steibel had any filmmaking experience when they set out to make “The Honeymoon Killers.”
Mr. Kastle was an opera composer whose work had aired on television, and Steibel was the producer of William F. Buckley Jr.’s TV series “Firing Line.” But after a wealthy friend of Steibel’s agreed to put up $150,000 to finance a low-budget movie, Steibel asked his friend Mr. Kastle to write the script.
“The Honeymoon Killers” was based on the true-life story of Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez, the so-called Lonely Hearts Killers who were executed at New York’s Sing Sing prison in 1951.
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He hit on the idea of making a grim, documentary-style work based on the story of Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, who were known as the Lonely Hearts Killers. Fernandez was a balding lothario, Beck his obese lover. Together they sought out victims
“The Honeymoon Killers” was based on the true-life story of Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez, the so-called Lonely Hearts Killers who were executed at New York's Sing Sing prison in 1951. The movie was shot on location in and near Albany, NY,
Mr. Kastle and film producer Warren Steibel came up with the idea of making a grim, documentary-style work based on the story of Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, who sought out robbery victims by reading newspaper personal ads.
Eigentlich war er ja Opernkomponist und -librettist, berühmt aber wurde der Amerikaner Leonard Kastle durch einen Film, den einzigen, den er je gedreht hat: 'Honeymoon Killers' von 1969 erzählt die Geschichte von Raymond Fernandez und Martha Beck,
I killers della luna di miele (trailer), ispirato alla vera storia di Raymond Fernandez e della sua obesa compagna Martha Beck, che negli anni '40 uccisero circa venti donne e per questo furono entrambi giustiziati (la loro storia è molto gustosa,
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After a highly sensationalized trial, Fernandez and Beck were found guilty of first-degree murder in August. Both were executed by electric chair about a year and a half later.
*Though, maybe it’s not so sad. It’s nice to think the name lives on, even if the original owner does not. Sort of an onomastic tribute.
Source: “Jury Convicts ‘Hearts’ Pair of Murder.
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