Crime Without Passion (1934)
Caddish lawyer Lee Gentry is going out with Katy Costello, but carrying on an affair with dancer Carmen Brown. When he wants to end the dalliance with Carmen, she is so distraught that she becomes suicidal. Seizing the gun from Carmen, he accidentally shoots her, and thinking she's dead, concocts a series of increasingly outlandish alibis to cover his tracks under the guidance of a ghostly apparition that is his alter ego.
- Date of release
- 1934-08-30
- TMDB
- 5.9 / 10 (26)
- Runtime
- 1h 10m
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Director
- Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Lee Garmes
Casting
- Claude Rains — Lee Gentry
- Margo — Carmen Brown
- Whitney Bourne — Katy Costello
- Stanley Ridges — Eddie White
- Leslie Adams — State's Attorney O'Brien
- Dorothy Bradshaw — Jury Member (uncredited)
- Fanny Brice — Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
- Jack Carr — Defendant (uncredited)
- Esther Dale — Miss Keeley (uncredited)
- Fraye Gilbert — Jury Member (uncredited)
- Greta Granstedt — Della (uncredited)
- Helen Hayes — Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
Interesting facts
- Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
Crime Without Passion is a 1934 American drama film directed by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur and starring Claude Rains. It is the first of four pictures written, produced and directed by Hecht and MacArthur for Paramount Pictures. Sixty to seventy percent of the film was directed by cinematographer Lee Garmes.
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