'' is a novel by version starring
Robert Wagner and
Joanne Woodward , and a 1991 version starring
Matt Dillon and
Sean Young .
The
1956 version was color
Film Noir directed by
Gerd Oswald .
Robert Wagner plays
Bud Corliss , a student who is wooing Dorothy Kingship (
Joanne Woodward ) purely for her father's mining fortune. When he finds she is pregnant he realizes she is quite likely to be disinherited. Bud then
Murder s Dorothy, with it staged in a way that it appears to be a
Suicide . After a couple of months her sister, Ellen, finds evidence to question the suicide verdict, but by then has a new boyfriend of her own, who turns out to be Bud.
The film was remade in 1991 starring
Matt Dillon and
Sean Young . The screenplay and direction by
James Dearden .
Sean Young received received two
Golden Raspberry Awards : worst actress for playing one twin, and worst supporting actress for the other twin.
A number of scenes in the film were shot at
Port Talbot steelworks, South Wales, UK.
