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Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2025
Barbara Stanwyck, a great actress, known for taking chances and playing strong female characters often on the wrong side of the law, unfortunately, is miscast in this unrealistic film. Stanwyck is pushing 50 in this movie and looks older so it was not believable that two men, decades younger would fall for her. Her hair style made her look even older, like a granny but we are supposed to believe she seduced her husband's boss and slept with him for promotion prospects for her husband who is not ambitious. For such an ambitious woman, she should have just restarted her career. There was too much over acting that seemed misplaced. Causing a car accident to befriend the wife of her husband's boss to gain access to the boss is just totally far fetched. You will recognize other actors and actress.
Win231
Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2024
I'm a big fan of Barbara Stanwyck & this has to be one of her best works. The supporting cast is great, too. In this movie, she goes to great lengths to get her detective husband promoted.
Anthony Galzarano
Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2024
My wife and I love noir movies and Barbara Stanwyck is one of the best female leads of the genre. This is no "Double Indemnity", though! Just because a movie is black and white and has detectives in it does not make it a " film noir". This is a 1950s melodrama.Whoever wrote the blurb for Amazon either never saw the movie or is a liar. It's a melodrama highlighting the social pressure on a woman to conform to the role of wife and homemaker. Stanwyck's character is a bright, ambitious and successful journalist who walks away from a breakout opportunity when she falls in love with an average Joe police detective. When she can no longer satisfy her own ambition, she funnels it into his career. It's not a bad movie on its own terms, but it's no "nail biter", unless you are just in the habit of biting your nails. Because of our expectations, we found it boring and resent having been fooled.
Ophelia A.
Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2023
I have not watched this video at this time.
HR
Reviewed in Canada on July 16, 2018
Screen went completely black at least a dozen times during playback (on several players). Movie might have been interesting as a historical curiosity - if I could have seen it.
camilla
Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2014
Barbara at her Best!A taut thriller about a women who wanted more than being a 50s housewife had to offer. A former newspaper columnist who leaves her job on an impulse to marry a police detective {Sterling Hayden} she barely knows, she soon begins to chafe in her role as police wife. She dreams up scheme to advance his career by becoming involved with the Chief of Police {Raymond Burr} and everything goes south.Stanwyck, Hayden and Burr give good performances and the story is surprisingly ahead of its time regarding a woman's place in society.
Alicia Czechowski
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2011
A successful advice columnist (Stanwyck) falls for a manly hunk of a police detective (Hayden), and swaps career and fame for humdrum housewifery in the burbs. Maddened by boredom in the narrow confines of domesticity, the newly married bride attempts to make use of a high police official (Burr)in order to help push hubby up the ladder of success, but soon finds that the tables have turned. A great cast is led by Stanwyck who works her magic, wringing pathos out of every scene as she descends from a position of calculated power to one of emotional desperation. The domestic scenes are juxtaposed with the inner workings of a big city (L.A.)police department including a fascinating little forensic vignette involving spent shells from a gun retrived from a homicide. Crime of Passion, highly entertaining!
Byron Kolln
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2007
With the exception of Joan Crawford, no-one could play the homicidal housewife more effectively than Barbara Stanwyck. CRIME OF PASSION (1957), based on a story by Jo Eisinger, is a great throwback to the noir thrillers of the 1940s, with Stanwyck delivering an amazing performance.Kathy Ferguson (Barbara Stanwyck, "Stella Dallas", "Ball of Fire") is a successful newspaper columnist who abandons her career to marry Los Angeles police lieutenant Bill Doyle (Sterling Hayden, "Johnny Guitar"). Despite all her best efforts, married life doesn't come easily for Kathy. She's driven to the brink, enduring the police wives' banal small-talk, and the endless poker games of Bill and his colleagues.Kathy decides to invest her time by helping Bill achieve his full potential within the police force - one rung at a time. But by ingratiating herself with the police chief and his wife (Raymond Burr and Fay Wray), Kathy only causes further hostility between Bill and his co-workers. When the chief announces plans for retirement, Kathy seduces him in an effort to clinch the deal for Bill to succeed him; but when the plan backfires, Kathy resorts to murder...CRIME OF PASSION gave Barbara Stanwyck the chance to revive the kind of murderous noir heroines that had marked some of her greatest movies ("Double Indemnity", "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers"). Sterling Hayden does what he can to provide distiction as Kathy's weak-willed milquetoast husband. Former movie queens Fay Wray and Virginia Grey are sadly forced into thankless supporting roles; indeed they are hardly noticeable here.The photography is superb, capturing the low roofs and picket fences of mundane suburbia (Kathy's self-inflicted prison). For fans of noir cinema, CRIME OF PASSION will be an entertaining title for the collection; fans of Barbara Stanwyck will naturally love it too.(Single-sided, single-layer disc).
Richard J. Marino
Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2000
Good Noir. Good Stanwyck. Middle-aged love affair that goes wrong. What can happen to someone from San Francisco, if they move to LA. Well the valley that is. Stanwyck plays Kathy Ferguson, a reporter for a major newspaper who gets married, and has only one ambition, to make her husband move up in the ranks of the LA police Dept. And she will do anything to do it. You know there will be trouble. The acting is crisp and the pace is quick and watchable. I beleive Raymond Burr gets his only screen kiss that I know of. Fay Wray is terrific in a supportive role. Its great to see her and Stanwyck together.Watch this with chips and CreamCheese and Olive dip.
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