Crime of Passion
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Movie Reviews of Crime of Passion
Movie Review: Crime of Passion
Summary: 4 Stars
Ace San Francisco newspaper columnist Kathy Ferguson (Barbara Stanwyck) cracks a big murder case and is offered a prestigious job on a New York paper. Opting for love over ambition, she instead marries Los Angeles homicide detective Bill Doyle (Sterling Hayden), leaving her, as she breathlessly tells him, with one ambition left - `to make you happy.'
A tender sentiment, but Barbara Stanwyck rarely walked through any movie with a single ambition. Even if Stanwyck's newlywed avowal is as portentous as Arnie telling a police clerk that he'll be back, it's expressive of more ambition than her husband can muster. While the housebound Kathy is slowly melting down in the dining room, chatting stuffed olives and chiffon dresses with the girls, husband Bill is contentedly debating the merits of the retirement plan with his work pals in the kitchen. If Bill isn't going anywhere it's fine enough with him. Another fifteen, twenty years on the force and he'll be able to retire with full benefits.
Enter Police Inspector Tony Pope (Raymond Burr). Enter the story, anyway. The Doyle's aren't quite in Pope's social set, and from the looks of it Pope doesn't go slumming too often. It's only when Pope goes a-knocking at a door that he ought to have stayed away from, sickly wife or no, that CRIME OF PASSION gains some last act momentum and lives up, or down, to its melodramatic title.
CRIME OF PASSION is an indictment of suburbia and suburban values, including marriage. It's a portrait of a socially ambitious woman married to a behind-the-curve, slug of a husband. It's a star vehicle for femme fatale par excellence Stanwyck, ably abetted by a strong, understated cast.
Movie Review: Mediocre Noir / Melodrama
Summary: 3 Stars
"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, takes a last drag on a cigarette, throws it down, and then punches out a superior. Average at best, "Crime Of Passion" is a mindless exercise in killing time and is really more melodrama than noir. Believe me noir fans, you can do much, much better than this.Movie Review: Not my favorite Stanwyck film
Summary: 3 Stars
Barbara Stanwyck is one of my favorite classic film actresses, however, this film is just fair, I don't really reccommend it.Movie Review: For Stanwyck and Sterling Hayden fans only
Summary: 2 Stars
I'd like to give it three stars but can't. It's a silly story line about climbing to fame and fortune in the world of police detectives. It's not a becoming role for Barbara Stanwyck, and Sterling Hayden just stands there and looks his sexy, handsome self. Stanwyck's outfits are very nice and one wonders how she affords such good looking outfits on a policeman's salary. Still it's interesting to watch. If you're a fan of film noir, Sterling Hayden and Barbara Stanwyck you won't be too disappointed.Movie Review: Painful to watch !!
Summary: 2 Stars
This film is listed in some books at a "Noir", but I say no !
It is more of a drama with way to much Barbara Stanwyck as the ultra aggressive wife married to Sterling Hayden, an everyday Joe who is a cop in LA !
Having to listen to Stanwyck ramble on and on really got on my nerves and I had to shut in down about 3/4 thru the movie and still do not know how it ended !