Crime Without Passion

Crime Without Passion

70 mins | Drama, Crime | Aug. 30, 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.

Crime Without Passion

70 mins | Drama, Crime | Aug. 30, 1934

Crime Without Passion
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.
IMDb rating 7.0
Producers Paramount, Hecht-MacArthur Productions
Original title Crime Without Passion
Directors Charles MacArthur, Lee Garmes, Ben Hecht
Writers James L. Shute, Charles MacArthur, Ben Hecht

Cast

Claude Rains

as Lee Gentry

Margo

as Carmen Brown

Whitney Bourne

as Katy Costello

Stanley Ridges

as Eddie White

Leslie Adams

as State's Attorney O'Brien

Dorothy Bradshaw

as Jury Member (uncredited)

Fanny Brice

as Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)

Jack Carr

as Defendant (uncredited)

Esther Dale

as Miss Keeley (uncredited)

Fraye Gilbert

as Jury Member (uncredited)

Greta Granstedt

as Della (uncredited)

Helen Hayes

as Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)

Ben Hecht

as Court Interviewer with Pipe (uncredited)

Charles Anthony Hughes

as Man (uncredited)

Charles Kennedy

as Police Lt. Norton (uncredited)

Charles MacArthur

as Second Interviewer (uncredited)

Cornelius MacSunday

as Gentry's Butler (uncredited)

Marjorie Main

as Backstage Wardrobe Woman (uncredited)

Marion Martin

as Theatre Cashier (uncredited)

Fuller Mellish

as Judge (uncredited)

Betty Real

as Waitress Slapping Lee Gentry (uncredited)

Betty Sundmark

as Jury Member (uncredited)

Paula Trueman

as Buster Malloy (uncredited)