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Crime of Passion is a 1957 American film noir crime drama directed by Gerd Oswald and written by Jo Eisinger. The cast features Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden and Raymond Burr.
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1957 1h 24m Crime Drama List 80% Tomatometer 5 Reviews 33% Audience Score 250+ Ratings When newspaper columnist Kathy Ferguson (Barbara Stanwyck) meets cop Bill Doyle (Sterling Hayden), the two...
- Crime, Drama
Dismissed as a routine crime melodrama when it opened in early 1957, Crime of Passion resonates much more deeply nearly fifty years later. From a post-feminist perspective, it seems to be a strikingly modern commentary about how women were driven mad by the limitations imposed on them in the postwar period.
In Gerd Oswald’s Crime of Passion, the delightful courtship between San Francisco columnist Kathy Ferguson (Barbara Stanwyck) and Los Angeles police lieutenant Bill Doyle (Sterling Hayden) results in an equally delightful suburban marriage complete with floral wallpaper and gender-segregated dinner parties. This most socially acceptable ...
Crime Of Passion (1957) is a cops in suburbia story of female subjugation by the American Dream, and the story of how one career woman in love regrets her decision to quit her job in the media and become a housewife.
Crime of Passion. 1957 · 1 hr 27 min. TV-PG. Drama · Crime. A newswoman-turned-bored homemaker channels her ambitions into her police detective hubby’s work by pushing him up the ladder by any means necessary. Subtitles: English. Starring: Barbara Stanwyck Sterling Hayden Raymond Burr Fay Wray Virginia Grey Royal Dano. Directed by: Gerd Oswald.
Overview. Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes her down a dangerous path.
Synopsis by Bruce Eder. Kathy Ferguson (Barbara Stanwyck) is a cynical newspaper columnist in San Francisco, handling women's advice -- by chance one day, the paper's city editor assigns her to cover the woman's angle on the arrival of a pair of L.A. police detectives, Capt. Manny Alidos (Royal Dano) and Lt. Bill Doyle (Sterling Hayden), on the ...
Synopsis. Kathy Ferguson is an independent woman that has the intention of never getting married. However, when she meets the LAPD Detective Lt. Bill Doyle during the investigation of Dana Case that is resolved with her support, they immediately fall in love for each other and get married.
