The sin ... the lie ... the crime of passion.
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.
- 6.1
- 1956
- Released
- 1h 23m
Barbara Stanwyck
Kathy Ferguson
Sterling Hayden
Lt. William Doyle
Raymond Burr
Inspector Tony Pope
Fay Wray
Alice Pope
Virginia Grey
Sara Alidas
Royal Dano
Capt. Charlie Alidas
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
Ralph Brooks
Reporter in Newspaper Office (Uncredited)
Larry Carr
Jack Chefe
Bartender (uncredited)
Richard Collier
Reporter (uncredited)Nan Dolan
Madelon Erin
Patricia Merlin
Taxi Driver (uncredited)Charles Perry
Cornerman (uncredited)
Kenner G. Kemp
Party Guest (uncredited)
Peg La Centra
Mrs. James (uncredited)Joe Ploski
Bartender (uncredited)
Carl Sklover
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Cosmo Sardo
Guest at Birthday Party (uncredited)
Bert Stevens
Policeman Writing Ticket (uncredited)
Geraldine Wall
Justice of the Peace (uncredited)Helen Jay
Newspaper Reader (uncredited)
Jean Howell
Mrs. Jules (uncredited)
Released
en
- #infidelity
- #police
- #ambition
- #police operation
- #press
- #film noir
- #columnist
- #unhappy marriage
- #scheming wife
- #unhappy wife
- #ambitious wife
Reviews
"Kathy" (Barbara Stanwyck) is a feisty journalist who is sent to get the "woman's angle" on a crime and encounters a rather sexist captain and his more reasonable lieutenant "Doyle" (Sterling Hayden). After a bit of an whirlwind romance, the couple marry and move in together. It doesn't take her too long to discover that her husband, though loving, is actually a bit of a plodder who is content to