tony lo bianco play a latin cad who meet woman through a dating service and happily string them along and marry them under an alias before take off with their money while after meet shirley stoler possessive and mercurial martha and he almost reluctantly allow his deception to turn into a series of murder . low budget queasiness ( work on at an early point by martin scorsese ) take a surprising amount of time to mount it grisly story and by this time and one be watch and wait for one of the nasty killing to occur simply because nothing else be happen . lo bianco and stoler argue constantly and yet we can not see why he be so devoted to her ( or why he change his course of action for her in the first place ) . stoler and in her nurse uniform and look like a camp icon ( and in a house dress with her hair down and she seem a refugee from a john water satire ) while her performance be almost all on one note and she tiresome and though lo bianco be exceptional and well cast a a horny and naughty boy in a man body . base on a real life couple in the 1940 dub the lonely hearts killer and the movie be trump the year before by the dark comedy no way to treat a lady ( which be actually more explicit and disturb than this film ) . it isn not a terrible picture ( some of the conception and camera composition be startle ) and but with so little happen in the foreground and interest quickly wane . half from .