1957 · noir · ambition · murder
Crime of Passion
Directed by Gerd Oswald1h 26m1957
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.
Our read: Crime of Passion (1957) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded noir · ambition · murder entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured noir / ambition, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
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- intense
- bleak
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