Movie·1934·1h 10m
Crime Without Passion
Country
United States of America
Language
English
✦CineAI Pitch
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// overview
The Story
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.
Producer
Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
Cinematography
Lee Garmes
Music
Frank Tours
Editor
Arthur Ellis
Themes
Production House
Audience Score
26 votes
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// cast
Cast
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)
Ben Hecht
Court Interviewer with Pipe (uncredited)
Charles Anthony Hughes
Man (uncredited)
Charles Kennedy
Police Lt. Norton (uncredited)
Charles MacArthur
Second Interviewer (uncredited)
Cornelius MacSunday
Gentry's Butler (uncredited)
Marjorie Main
Backstage Wardrobe Woman (uncredited)
// crew
Crew
Ben Hecht
Screenplay, Director, Story, Producer
Charles MacArthur
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Lee Garmes
Director of Photography, Director
Frank Tours
Original Music Composer
Arthur Ellis
Editor
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