Crime of Passion

San Francisco newspaper columnist Kathy Ferguson trades her career for marriage to an L.A. cop. With nowhere to channel her talent and ambition, Kathy quickly becomes a dangerous woman. Jo Eisenger's script is a subversive excoriation of women's circumscribed roles in Eisenhower-era America, tailor-made for Stanwyck, who pulls out all the stops in her final, riveting performance in a film noir.