Crime of Passion

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Crime of Passion is a 1957 American film noir drama starring Barbara Stanwyck and Sterling Hayden that explores the destructive consequences of ambition and marital dissatisfaction.

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instanceOf drama film
film
film noir
basedOn original screenplay
cinematographyBy Joseph LaShelle
colorProcess black-and-white
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Gerd Oswald
distributedBy United Artists
distributorRegion United States of America
surface form: United States
editedBy Otto Ludwig
filmingStyle black-and-white
format feature film
genre drama film
film noir
hasWikipediaPage true
leadActorCharacter Barbara Stanwyck as Kathy Ferguson
Sterling Hayden as Bill Doyle
mainCharacter Bill Doyle
Kathy Ferguson
medium cinema
musicBy Paul Dunlap
narrativeTheme ambition
crime
gender roles
marital dissatisfaction
notableFor portrayal of a frustrated career woman in 1950s America
originalLanguage English
plotSummary A successful advice columnist abandons her career to marry a police detective and becomes increasingly frustrated and ambitious, leading to tragic consequences.
producer Herman Cohen
productionCompany Fury Productions
releaseDate 1957-02-13
releaseYear 1957
runtimeMinutes 84
screenwriter Jo Eisinger
setting Los Angeles
starring Barbara Stanwyck
Fay Wray
Raymond Burr
Robert Griffin
Royal Dano
Sterling Hayden
Virginia Grey
supportingActorCharacter Fay Wray
surface form: Fay Wray as Alice Pope

Raymond Burr as Tony Pope
timePeriodDepicted 1950s

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Sterling Hayden notableWork Crime of Passion