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Crime of Passion

Crime of Passion

1956 · 86 min · EN · NR · 6.1 (57 votes)
Dir. Gerd Oswald · Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr, Fay Wray, Virginia Grey, Royal Dano · Music Paul Dunlap

“Her husband was lying so close... the gun was even closer... now she was only one sin away from the Crime of Passion.”

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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.

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A simmering, claustrophobic descent into obsession. The glossy veneer of suburban life cracks to reveal dark desires and dangerous ambition, all wrapped in classic noir shadows and a sense of inevitable doom.

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