Claysaba
Excellent, Without a doubt!!
Tayyab Torres
Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.
Marva
It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
DKosty123
This is a film noir style of movie which features Barbara Stanwyck as the wife of a hard driving chief police detective. Her husband always goes for the headlines and often gets them with the help of his department including Burr. Everything is going fine until - well this is where Barbara gets in.In the case of this policeman's wife, she starts getting involved in things she should not be involved with. Then comes the ultimate crime of all, she has an affair with someone very close to her husband. Then she feels guilty about it and can not get past it. So she steals a gun and guns down the man like a dog.To solve the crime, Bill Doyle needs help to get this cop killer so in a small role Stuart Whitman is Laboratory Technician who gets the evidence rolling, though it takes the whole department to get the goods on Kathy Doyle. There is more to it, as Barbara Stanwyck is Kathy Doyle, Sterling Hayden is Bill Doyle, Raymond Burr is Tony Pope and Fay Wray is Alice Pope.
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.
marcslope
Fun, low-budget late noir, where we see capable, independent career woman Barbara Stanwyck fall in love with straight-arrow L.A. cop Sterling Hayden, try to fit in as a happy Fifties housewife, quickly go insane from the effort, and commit the crime of the title. There's abundant pre-feminist social commentary, as well as palpable heat between the principal players--we see at once what's keeping them together. But there are loose ends, too. If Stanwyck's so unhappy with cakes and pies and cleaning, why doesn't she just go out and get another job, as Hayden would surely allow? Why would she Make a Mistake with his boss, an unappealing Raymond Burr, then regret it instantly? And what palpable gains are to be gotten from her from committing the titular crime? Some nice location filming helps, and we understand how the stultifying life she's chosen is messing with her head. But the plot motivations aren't entirely credible.
Claudio Carvalho
The successful columnist of The San Francisco Post Kathy Ferguson (Barbara Stanwyck) is an independent woman that has the intention of never getting married. However, when she meets the LAPD Detective Lt. Bill Doyle (Sterling Hayden) during the investigation of Dana Case that is resolved with her support, they immediately fall in love for each other and get married. Kathy quits her job and moves to Los Angeles to be a housewife. Bill is very close to his colleagues and their wives, and they have frequent dinner parties at his home, and the boredom of the conversation with other wives and the lack of ambition of Bill in the Police Department make Kathy to plot a scheme to push Bill's career to a higher position. Kathy forces the encounter with his superior Police Inspector Anthony Pope (Raymond Burr) and his wife Alice Pope (Fay Wray) and destroys the friendship of Bill with his immediate superior Police Capt. Charlie Alidos (Royal Dano); then she has one night stand with Tony to get the promise that he will recommend Bill to his position since he is planning to retire. When Kathy realizes that Tony's promise was just pillow talk, the ambitious woman takes a decision with no return.The film-noir "Crime of Passion" is quite dated today but I believe that it was ahead of time in 1957 with an engaging and amoral story of ambition and murder. Barbara Stanwyck plays Kathy Ferguson Doyle, an ambitious woman in the 50's not tailored to be a conventional housewife that loves her husband that is a man that prioritizes his family over his career. The emptiness of her life associated to the lack of interest of her beloved husband in his career drives Kathy insane and capable of committing a murder and destroy her family and certainly Bill's career. Just as a curiosity, the wife of Police Inspector Tony Pope is Fay Wray, the unforgettable Ann Darrow from "King Kong". My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Da Ambição ao Crime" ("From the Ambition to Crime")Note: On 24 Jul 2018, I saw this film again.
