Crime Without Passion
1934 · 1h 10m · Approved
Crime, Drama
Directed by
Ben Hecht
,
Charles MacArthur
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Ben Hecht Director
- Charles MacArthur Director
- 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)
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