Crime Without Passion (1934)
1h 10m
Running Time
August 30, 1934Release Date
Crime Without Passion (1934)
1h 10m
Running Time
August 30, 1934Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Claude Rains
Lee Gentry
Margo
Carmen Brown
Whitney Bourne
Katy Costello
Stanley Ridges
Eddie White
Leslie Adams
State's Attorney O'Brien
Lee Garmes
Director
Dorothy Bradshaw
Jury Member (uncredited)
Fanny Brice
Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
Ben Hecht
Director
Charles MacArthur
Director
Jack Carr
Defendant (uncredited)
Frank Tours
Composer
Esther Dale
Miss Keeley (uncredited)
Arthur Ellis
Editor
Fraye Gilbert
Jury Member (uncredited)
Greta Granstedt
Della (uncredited)
Helen Hayes
Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
Charles Anthony Hughes
Man (uncredited)
Charles Kennedy
Police Lt. Norton (uncredited)
Cornelius MacSunday
Gentry's Butler (uncredited)
Marjorie Main
Backstage Wardrobe Woman (uncredited)
Marion Martin
Theatre Cashier (uncredited)
Fuller Mellish
Judge (uncredited)
Betty Real
Waitress Slapping Lee Gentry (uncredited)
Betty Sundmark
Jury Member (uncredited)
Paula Trueman
Buster Malloy (uncredited)
Oscar Levant
Additional Music
Arthur Rosson
General Manager
James L. Shute
Writers' Assistant
Slavko Vorkapich
Special Effects / Editorial Services
Joseph I. Kane
Sound Recordist
Albert Johnson
Set Decoration
Leslie Bain
Special Effects
Mickey King
Choreographer
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
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.