Crime of Passion (1956)

I haven’t watched a Barbara Stanwyck film in awhile and this was a pretty good one to revise my love. Babs is a news writer who against her better judgment falls in love and marries good-natured cop Sterling Hayden. She truly loves her husband but she hates the dull monotony that is the life of a suburban housewife in the 1950s. She instead directs her energy and ambition toward moving her husband up the ranks in his division. Raymond Burr is shrewd as the police inspector who sees behind her ruse and their chemistry in the film is truly excellent.