Diagonaldi Very well executed

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Dalbert Pringle Actually - I think that a more appropriate title for this dizzy, 1957, crime-clunker would have been "Crime of Stupidity" - 'Cause, believe me, that's exactly what this idiotic film's storyline amounted to being - pure stupidity (as only Hollywood could possibly deliver it).You know - I can't imagine how anyone in the cast of this utterly implausible movie-nonsense could've ever kept a straight face, spewing out the totally awful dialogue that they did, and behaving like absolute brain-dead buffoons throughout.Personally, I think that that big, dull oaf, Sterling Hayden was one of the most insincere and unconvincing character actors of his generation, bar none.And, finally - Speaking about actress, Barbara Stanwyck - (At 50 years old here) - She was, in my opinion, absolute light years away from being believable, at all, as the irresistibly alluring business woman. She really was.

ildimo-35223 Expertly paced proto feminist indictment of the '50s US suburbia, directed boldly and efficiently by Gerd Oswald - an "outsider" of the Hollywood system. Stanwyck is in her usual neurotic best as the trapped, sexually frustrated wife, while Hayden and Burr turn in solid supporting performances. Interestingly, no child ever appears in the film, a rather curious fact for a film criticising the american dream of the era, enigmatically leaning the story towards an adult critique of the sexual predicament of the couple as the primary social unit.

SnoopyStyle Kathy Ferguson (Barbara Stanwyck) is an advice columnist for the San Francisco Post. LAPD detective William Doyle (Sterling Hayden) and Captain Charlie Alidos arrive for a case. She helps Doyle to solve the case and is offered a big opportunity. Instead, she abandons her career to marry Doyle and follow him to LA. Doyle is a by-the-books guy with no ambitions to climb higher. Kathy claims to have no ambitions other than to be a housewife. Soon, she chafes at the banalities of a suburban housewife life and is pushing Doyle up the ladder any which way possible. She deliberately gets into a car accident with Alice Pope to connect with her husband, Police Inspector Tony Pope (Raymond Burr). This sets her in conflict with the Alidos and down a dark path.Barbara Stanwyck is a noir femme fatale stuck in suburbia. It is a fascinating concept and it has the amazing Stanwyck. She does need a more compelling opponent. It would have been interesting to have the Alidos have a bigger role. As such, it is a fascinating character for Stanwyck. She has the balls and the rooting interest. Although, I don't think that it's necessary to start her off as a career woman. It would have been more compelling to do a darker side of suburban life by starting everyone in that nuclear family utopia.

bob the moo Crime of Passion sees ambitious journalist Kathy fall for and marry the simple cop Bill Doyle and move into a world of settled domesticity. Her ambitions however are not satisfied and as she tries to manipulate her way up the social and career ladder for her and Bill, she loses sight of what is important and things start to go wrong.With Stanwyck, Burr and Hayden in the cast I was looking forward to this film and on that front I was happy enough because the cast were as solid as those names would suggest. The problem is not with them but rather with a plot that moves too quickly, doesn't always ring true and is tidied up too easily. We meet Kathy as an aspiring journalist who has ambitions but within a few scenes she has settled down with Bill – a man that one key scene in their new home tells us, that she really doesn't know at all but it is clear to the viewer that the life models for these two don't align. Suddenly we have personal ambitions replaced with ambitions for Bill's career and from there things go wrong in ways that don't really ring true either. I liked Kathy as a character but her frustrations are all over the place – she hates the domestic life of the housewife circle but yet her attempts at betterment are focused on Bill, not herself. Her relationship with Tony Pope is also out of nowhere and again doesn't convince. From here things move very quickly to a conclusion that is far too tidy for its own good and doesn't satisfy as it should.The delivery of the situations always feels rushed and although it pushes a dark tone, it doesn't support it with the material. The cast do all they can though and indeed it is Stanwyck that makes the difference as she sells her character the best she can. Her driven and frustrated performance makes the unconvincing narrative a little less unconvincing. Hayden is solid as you expect and I liked this naïve, rather plain- living character. Burr is a decent presence but he is a narrative device rather than a character – he serves this function well but nothing more.Crime of Passion should have been a much stronger film but instead the narrative is unconvincing and jumps events without making good connections. The cast help cover for this and give good turns but the film is not really deserving of their efforts.