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Crime Without Passion

Crime Without Passion

★ 5.9/10•1934•1h 10m•Crime•Drama

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.

Ben Hecht · Director

Ben Hecht · Screenplay

Charles MacArthur · Director

Lee Garmes · Director

StatusReleased
Runtime1h 10m
LanguageEN
Release DateAug 30, 1934

Actors

Claude Rains

Claude Rains

Lee Gentry

Margo

Margo

Carmen Brown

Whitney Bourne

Whitney Bourne

Katy Costello

Stanley Ridges

Stanley Ridges

Eddie White

Leslie Adams

State's Attorney O'Brien

Dorothy Bradshaw

Jury Member (uncredited)

Fanny Brice

Fanny Brice

Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)

Jack Carr

Defendant (uncredited)

Esther Dale

Esther Dale

Miss Keeley (uncredited)

Fraye Gilbert

Jury Member (uncredited)

Greta Granstedt

Greta Granstedt

Della (uncredited)

Helen Hayes

Helen Hayes

Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)

Ben Hecht

Ben Hecht

Court Interviewer with Pipe (uncredited)

Charles Anthony Hughes

Man (uncredited)

Charles Kennedy

Police Lt. Norton (uncredited)

Charles MacArthur

Second Interviewer (uncredited)

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