“The Honeymoon Killers...recounts the criminal partnership of Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez, who were executed for murder at Sing Sing Prison in March, 1951. Fernandez and the 29-year-old, 200 pound Mrs. Beck, known as the ‘Lonely Hearts Killers' at the time of their trial, made a career of stealing from lonely women whom Fernandez met through correspondence clubs, with Mrs. Beck, a trained nurse, posing as his sister.... Within the limits of its type it is one of the best and, curiously, most beautiful American movies in recent years.... (with) a more concentrated, less cluttered, clearer vision than you are likely to have found in even the best conventional crime movies. Unusually seedy in all its particulars, utterly unflattering to all its characters, sufficiently horrible (but never gratuitously shocking) in the details of its murders, Kastle's film succeeds as a kind of chamber drama of desperate attraction and violent death.” Roger Greenspun, New York Times