Crime and Passion

André Ferren, [Omar Sharif], learns from his girlfriend and co-worker Susan Winters, [Karen Black], that the brokerage magnate Hermann Rolf, [Bernhard Wicki], not only wants to replace André but asked Susan on a date. Susan agrees on the condition that Rolf entrusts his fortune to André as a gift. Weeks later, Rolf and Susan are married at Rolf’s castle in the Swiss Alps. André vows to create a financial scandal that will ruin Rolf and she can divorce him.

André is then accused by the top executives at the brokerage firm of stealing $2.5 million from Rolf’s account. He is given ten days to return the money or go to prison. André drives to a ski resort where Susan is having an affair with Larry, a ski instructor. André explains to Susan that he is being framed. A skier attempts to murder André with a ski pole, but André falls and the other skier dies instead. That night, Susan informs André that they cannot be seen together or Rolf will divorce her, and explains that Rolf murdered all his ex-wives.

André survives several more attempts on his life as he follows Susan and Larry to Rolf’s castle, including an episode at a village inn where a woman attempts to strangle him. Eventually André sneaks into the castle, where he is imprisoned by a sword-wielding Larry. Susan asks Larry to drive her Maserati Indy to Switzerland and deliver a letter to a banker. In the process of doing so, he passes Rolf’s Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud, and Rolf’s manservant Henkel shoots, causing the Maserati to explode.

Susan shoots a man in a suit of armor attempting to stab André through the cell bars; lifting the visor reveals the face of the innkeeper. Susan then begins noticing hidden surveillance cameras throughout the castle as Rolf sends Henkel on foot to kill André. Susan tells Rolf through one of the cameras that her feelings have changed. She then tells André to make love to her and smashes the camera, bringing a tear to Rolf’s eye as he watches surveillance footage from inside the Rolls-Royce. Henkel locks the castle gates and hides in a mortar, but is shot out of it when Susan pulls the lanyard. Rolf gets drunk, falls down a ravine and walks through the snow.

The next morning, Susan and André lie in bed and realize that Rolf had set them up in a scheme to murder them. Meanwhile, Rolf has frozen to death standing up.

Last Updated: October 09, 2025 at 09:31