Crime of Passion (1957 film)
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Theatrical release poster
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| Directed by | Gerd Oswald |
| Produced by | Herman Cohen |
| Screenplay by | Jo Eisinger |
| Starring |
Barbara Stanwyck Sterling Hayden Raymond Burr |
| Music by | Paul Dunlap |
| Cinematography | Joseph LaShelle |
| Edited by | Marjorie Fowler |
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Production
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Robert Goldstein Productions
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| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Release date
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January 9, 1957 |
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Running time
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84 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Crime of Passion is a 1957 American crime film noir directed by Gerd Oswald and written by Jo Eisinger. The drama features Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden and Raymond Burr.
Kathy Ferguson (Stanwyck) is a San Francisco newspaper advice columnist. One day, Lieutenant Bill Doyle (Hayden), a Los Angeles police detective, and his partner, Captain Charlie Alidos (Royal Dano), track a fugitive wanted for murder to San Francisco. He meets Kathy and they fall in love. She manages to gain the female fugitive's trust and locate her. Kathy's resulting front page story leads to an offer of a big job in New York City, but she abandons her career, marries Doyle and moves to Los Angeles.
Her new role as a 1950s suburban wife and homemaker quickly makes her unhappy. She wants her husband to move up in the world, to become "somebody". Doyle has different values. He works in order to afford a comfortable lifestyle, no more. Kathy schemes to push her husband up the career ladder without his knowledge. She arranges to get into a car accident with Alice Pope (Fay Wray), in order to become acquainted with her husband, Police Inspector Tony Pope (Raymond Burr), head of Bill's division. Pope realizes what she has done, and why, but plays along.
Her continuing ploys inevitably bring her into conflict with Sara Alidos (Virginia Grey), the captain's equally ambitious wife, and Captain Alidos begins to find fault with Bill at every opportunity. Vicious rumors circulate about Kathy's relationship with Tony Pope. When Bill sees a poison pen letter that Kathy has received, he rushes to work and punches his boss, Alidos, in front of two police witnesses. During the investigation, Pope shifts enough of the blame to Alidos, suggesting he reached for his gun when the visibly angry Bill burst into the room, that he can hush up the whole incident. Alidos is then transferred to another division, and Bill is given his former position as an acting homicide captain.
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