The Honeymoon Killers (1969)

It's been a while since I last saw this cult item and it was just as sleazy and fascinating as I recall.  Shirley Stoler in her first film role at age 40 plays an obese nurse who joins forces with a latin lothario with a line in wooing rich old ladies.  She poses as his sister but gets so jealous that most of them end up dead -- as do our two leads who went to the electric chair in 1959.  The basic facts are meant to be true but they are embellished for our benefit.  This was the first and only film written and directed by one Leonard Kastle, but he has earned himself a place in the history of exploitation film.  Rumour has it that Martin Scorsese was involved at an early stage which doubtlessly doesn't figure on his curriculum vitae.