First Look at New Restoration of Gerd Oswald's Crime of Passion

U.S. label ClassicFlix has released a new promo video for the upcoming Blu-ray release of Gerd Oswald's thriller Crime of Passion (1957), starring Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr, Fay Wray, and Virginia Grey. The release will be available for purchase on September 5.

Synopsis: "No Bill, I don't think I ever will get married," confesses popular advice columnist Kathy Ferguson (Barbara Stanwyck). "It's propaganda. Not for me." But Kathy's mindset quickly changes when she falls hard for police detective Bill Doyle (Sterling Hayden) and marries him with every expectation of being a devoted and supportive wife.

At first, Kathy enjoys her new role of suburban homemaker, but before long she tires of her mundane existence which is exacerbated by Bill's lack of ambition. To fix her dilemma, Kathy schemes to further Bill's career by any means necessary. Her plans are soon thwarted, however, when an expected promotion for Bill doesn't materialize and causes her to take matters into her own hands… in the form of a gun.

Written by Jo Eisinger (Gilda, Night and cathe City) and co-starring Raymond Burr (Perry Mason), Crime of Passion delivers the goods with noir favorites Barbara Stanwyck and Sterling Hayden in top form.

Special Features:

• Audio Commentary by biographer & producer Alan K. Rode
• Into the Darkness: Mann, Alton and T-Men - Featurette with cinematographer Richard Crudo, film critic & author Todd McCarthy, writer and film historian Julie Kirgo, film historian & director Courtney Joyner and biographer & producer Alan K. Rode
• A Director's Daughter: Nina Mann Remembers - An Interview with Nina Mann
• PLUS: A 24 page booklet with an essay by author Max Alvarez (The Crime Films of Anthony Mann) featuring stills, posters and other production material
• The mono soundtrack has been restored is uncompressed (Blu-ray only)