Faye Dunaway herself up to her estranged father and a lover. I understood that dilemma well, the conflict between ambition and love, the fear of trusting someone else with your love." The film was a modest success but Dunaway received good notices for her performance. In his review of the film, Roger Ebert noted how she had never topped the work she did in "Bonnie and Clyde", and said that her career had been "rather absentminded" ever since. He praised her performance in "Oklahoma Crude", saying that she played the role with "a great deal of style", while adding, "Perhaps she has
Faye Dunaway the main competition. Neither "Doc" nor "The Deadly Trap" had generated much attention, either critically or financially, so Dunaway accepted an offer to star in a movie for television, "The Woman I Love" (1972), in which she portrayed Wallis Simpson. She returned to film in 1973 with Stanley Kramer's drama, "Oklahoma Crude", opposite George C. Scott. It was an ambitious project in which Dunaway had to play another complex character, "a woman who is caught between her ambition and her feminity. When the film opens, she is as tough as nails, a shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later woman. Along the way, she slowly opens