Crime Without Passion
1934 · 70 min
Crime · Drama
★ 5.9Caddish 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.
Crew
- Director Ben Hecht
- Director Charles MacArthur
- Director Lee Garmes
- Screenplay Ben Hecht
- Screenplay Charles MacArthur
- Story Ben Hecht
- Director of Photography Lee Garmes
Cast
Claude Rains
Lee Gentry
Margo
Carmen Brown
Whitney Bourne
Katy Costello
Stanley Ridges
Eddie White
- L
Leslie Adams
State's Attorney O'Brien
- D
Dorothy Bradshaw
Jury Member (uncredited)
Fanny Brice
Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
- J
Jack Carr
Defendant (uncredited)
Esther Dale
Miss Keeley (uncredited)
- F
Fraye Gilbert
Jury Member (uncredited)
Greta Granstedt
Della (uncredited)
Helen Hayes
Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
Crew
- Director — Ben Hecht
- Director — Charles MacArthur
- Director — Lee Garmes
- Screenplay — Ben Hecht
- Screenplay — Charles MacArthur
- Story — Ben Hecht
- Director of Photography — Lee Garmes
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