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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9780792859017
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792859014
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 02, 2003
Running Time: 86 minutes
Sales Rank: 37446
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: January 09, 1957
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(Headline): She d do anything for him to get ahead anything!Barbara Stanwyck soars in a rafter-rattling portrayal of a homicidal housewife (The New York Times) in this exciting taut (Motion Picture Daily) thriller about wanting it all and stopping at nothing to get it. A most unusual story for its time Crime of Passion delivers nail-biting suspense shocking plot twists and a 1950s anti-heroine you won t soon forget!Advice columnist Kathy Ferguson (Stanwyck) abandons her successful career when she marries police detective Bill Doyle (Sterling Hayden). But her new role as a 1950s suburban homemaker quickly stifles her spirit and she transfers her thwarted ambition to her husband s career scheming to push Bill up the ladder by any means necessary even murder!Barbara Stanwyck soars in a rafter-rattling portrayal of a homicidal housewife (The New York Times) in this gripping film noir classic.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: MYSTERY/SUSPENSE UPC: 027616899538 Manufacturer No: 1005692
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Rating:  -
"Crime Of Passion" is film noir mediocrity and frankly, a major disappointment. The plot just doesn't ring true and denegrades women if this film is linked to the Woman's Liberation Movement as some have suggested. Stanwick certainly goes way over the top and is supposed to be an intelligent, rational woman, but by the end of the movie has lost all sense of bearing and reality because she now lives in suburbia? Hayden is more effective and has a truly memorable scene where he "busts" into an office, ... Read More
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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"). ... Read More
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Barbara Stanwyck was an actress of formidable talent, she was subtle, and elegant, yet she could bluster and lose control and do it with so much grace and grandeur. In Crime of Passion a 50's noir potboiler, Stanwyck plays a popular San Francisco newspaper columnist named Kathy Ferguson. Fiercely independent, Kathy prides herself on the fact that she's a career girl, and that she hasn't resorted, like most other women of her generation, to settling down to cook and clean for a man.
All this ... Read More
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Kathy Ferguson (Barbara Stanwyck) is a popular advice columnist for a San Francisco newspaper. Career-minded and unmarried, Kathy has a certain disdain for the housewives with whom she professes to sympathize in print. But when a murder suspect confides in her, Kathy is able to turn the woman in to the two Los Angeles police detectives who were on her trail. Her role in capturing a fugitive is a boon to Kathy's career, and she's offered a better job in New York. But Kathy has fallen in love with one of the ... Read More
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This review is for the 2003 MGM DVD
Barbara Stanwyck stars as Kathy Ferguson, an ambitious, independent woman who writes a relationship advice column for a San Francisco newspaper. While on the job, she gets a different assignment dealing with a Los Angeles police investigation and through some savvy detective work, helps the out of town detectives crack the case. One of the policemen is Bill Doyle (Sterling Hayden) and they quickly fall for each other. But at the same time, Kathy just accepted ... Read More
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