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Director:
Gerd Oswald
Writers:
Jo Eisinger (screenplay)
Jo Eisinger (story)
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Release Date:
9 January 1957 (USA) more
Genre:
Crime | Film-Noir | Drama more
Plot:
Kathy is a smart and tough 1950's advice columnist at a San Francisco newspaper, with her name plastered on billboards all over the city... more | add synopsis
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Crime of Passion - Too Convenient for Words **1/2 more

Cast

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Barbara Stanwyck ... Kathy Ferguson Doyle
Sterling Hayden ... Police Lt. Bill Doyle
Raymond Burr ... Police Inspector Anthony (Tony) Pope
Fay Wray ... Alice Pope
Virginia Grey ... Sara Alidos
Royal Dano ... Police Capt. Charlie Alidos
Robert Griffin ... Police Sgt. James
Dennis Cross ... Police Sgt. Jules
Jay Adler ... Mr. Nalence
Stuart Whitman ... Laboratory Technician

Malcolm Atterbury ... Police Officer Spitz
Robert Quarry ... Sam, Reporter
Gail Bonney ... Mrs. London
Joe Conley ... Delivery Boy
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Patricia Merlin ... Taxi Driver
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Additional Details

Runtime:
84 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono

Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Crew or equipment visible: When Kathy calls Alice from the phone booth and hears she is leaving for Honolulu, the reflection of the cameraman is seen all through the scene on the back window of the booth (above left Kathy's head), and it moves as the camera pulls back. more
Quotes:
Alice Pope: You said, "Bill, you better go right out and get your lunch because I've just driven up Mrs Pole's telephone Pope". more

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Crime of Passion - Too Convenient for Words **1/2, 13 January 2007
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Author: edwagreen from United States

One day Barbara Stanwyck is a hot San Francisco columnist who marries Sterling Hayden after an extremely brief romance. How the two click to begin with still remains a mystery to me.

Living with Hayden, her policeman husband in L.A., Barbara soon realizes that her new husband lacks ambition. All he is interested in doing is playing cards with the guys and discussing pension issues in the Police Department. This isn't for Barbara, who seems to be confined with the other cops' wives. Within a few moments, she becomes a scheming, vicious woman who will stop at nothing to get her husband to the top. It's sort of Joan Crawford's performance in "Harriet Craig" without the murder.

What scheming Miss Stanwyck comes up with it. She could rival I Love Lucy at any time.

Raymond Burr enters the film as head of the police who falls for Stanwyck. How she angled her way into his life is still beyond belief. Naturally, he shall take a bullet for his efforts.

Too fast too soon for me.

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