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Crime of Passion

  • 19561956
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  • 1h 26m
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6.4/10
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Raymond Burr, Sterling Hayden, Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Cross, Royal Dano, and Robert Griffin in Crime of Passion (1956)
  • Crime
  • Drama
  • Film-Noir
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 soo... Read allKathy 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.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.
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
2.4K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Gerd Oswald
  • Writer
    • Jo Eisinger(original story and screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Barbara Stanwyck
    • Sterling Hayden
    • Raymond Burr
Top credits
  • Director
    • Gerd Oswald
  • Writer
    • Jo Eisinger(original story and screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Barbara Stanwyck
    • Sterling Hayden
    • Raymond Burr
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    • 57User reviews
    • 17Critic reviews
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    Crime of Passion (1956)
    Sterling Hayden, Barbara Stanwyck, and Royal Dano in Crime of Passion (1956)
    Barbara Stanwyck in Crime of Passion (1956)
    Barbara Stanwyck in Crime of Passion (1956)
    Barbara Stanwyck in Crime of Passion (1956)
    Raymond Burr, Sterling Hayden, and Barbara Stanwyck in Crime of Passion (1956)
    Raymond Burr and Barbara Stanwyck in Crime of Passion (1956)
    Raymond Burr, Sterling Hayden, and Barbara Stanwyck in Crime of Passion (1956)
    Sterling Hayden and Barbara Stanwyck in Crime of Passion (1956)
    Raymond Burr, Sterling Hayden, and Barbara Stanwyck in Crime of Passion (1956)
    Raymond Burr, Sterling Hayden, and Barbara Stanwyck in Crime of Passion (1956)
    Sterling Hayden and Barbara Stanwyck in Crime of Passion (1956)

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    Barbara Stanwyck
    Barbara Stanwyck
    • Kathy Doyle
    Sterling Hayden
    Sterling Hayden
    • Bill Doyle
    Raymond Burr
    Raymond Burr
    • Tony Pope
    Fay Wray
    Fay Wray
    • Alice Pope
    Virginia Grey
    Virginia Grey
    • Sara Alidos
    Royal Dano
    Royal Dano
    • Charlie Alidos
    Robert Griffin
    Robert Griffin
    • Detective James
    Dennis Cross
    • Detective Jules
    Jay Adler
    Jay Adler
    • Nalence
    Stuart Whitman
    Stuart Whitman
    • Laboratory Technician
    Malcolm Atterbury
    Malcolm Atterbury
    • Officer Spitz
    Robert Quarry
    Robert Quarry
    • Reporter
    Gail Bonney
    Gail Bonney
    • Mrs. London
    Joe Conley
    Joe Conley
    • Delivery Boy
    Paul Bradley
    • Party Guest
    • (uncredited)
    Ralph Brooks
    • Reporter in Newspaper Office
    • (uncredited)
    Larry Carr
    Larry Carr
    • Minor Role
    • (uncredited)
    Jack Chefe
    • Bartender
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Gerd Oswald
    • Writer
      • Jo Eisinger(original story and screenplay)
    • All cast & crew
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    • Trivia
      The last film noir roles of both Barbara Stanwyck and Raymond Burr. It also comes towards the ends of their film careers in general. Both would soon transition to working primarily in television and appearing only occasionally in movies. Burr notably moved from the villainous characters he often portrayed in films to long-running success as the heroic defense attorney in Perry Mason (1957).
    • Goofs
      When Kathy calls Alice from the phone booth and hears she is leaving for Honolulu, the reflection of the cameraman is seen all through the scene on the back window of the booth (above left Kathy's head), and it moves as the camera pulls back.
    • Quotes

      Kathy Doyle: I hope all your socks have holes in them and I can sit for hours and hours darning them.

      Bill Doyle: I um, I have other plans for you.

    User reviews57

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    8/10
    A hair slow at times, but really well acted and filmed. And widescreen.
    Crime of Passion (1957)

    A gripping widescreen black and white crime film where the loner lost in a complacent world is a woman--played with steely determination by Barbara Stanwyck. In some ways this film is a familiar type, but it has some unique lines that open up as it goes until it becomes a unique tale of seduction and ambition.

    You won't see Sterling Hayden better (this is around the time of his defining but more constrained role in Kubrick's "The Killing"), and throw in Raymond Burr and, believe it or not, Fay Ray (of "King Kong" fame, 1933), and you have quite a cast. It moves fast though there is some redundancy to the events sometimes--we get the idea of her ambition, for example, but they give us several examples of it instead of one good one. In general the writing is very smart and sometimes witty, in the hands of a late noir standard bearer, the woman writer Jo Eisinger.

    The great dramatic photography is by legendary Joseph LaShelle, and it's all pulled together elegantly by director Gerd Oswald. Who's he? Good question...this is his most respected film (he also did the good "A Kiss Before Dying" which is streamable on Netflix). I think this is a lucky confluence of talents--Stanwyck of course, and Hayden, but also LaShelle and Burr and Eisinger.

    It might be no coincidence that one of the themes, in fact the trigger for Stanwyck's change of character halfway through, is a revelation of sexual (gender) stereotypes--men play cards and silly things that sound important, and women sit in the next room not playing cards saying silly things that sound silly. At least in Eisinger's eyes. It's great stuff for 1957, and has more honesty than many later approaches to the problem. Stanwyck's solution, of course, is dubious. She plays a role she played in one of my favorite movies of hers, twenty some years earlier, in "Baby Face," where she sleeps her way to success.

    A good one, late in the noir/crime era for this style, but so good it holds up well.
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    • Release date
      • November 8, 1957 (Finland)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Love Story
    • Filming locations
      • Parker Center - 150 North Los Angeles Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Robert Goldstein Productions
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 26 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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