Crime Without Passion
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Directed by | Ben Hecht Charles MacArthur |
Produced by | Ben Hecht Charles MacArthur |
Written by | Ben Hecht Charles MacArthur |
Cinematography | Lee Garmes |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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70 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Crime Without Passion is a 1934 American drama film directed by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, starring Claude Rains. It is the first of four pictures written, produced and directed by Hecht and MacArthur for Paramount Pictures. Sixty to seventy percent of the film was directed by cinematographer Lee Garmes.[citation needed]
The plot centers around a clever and suave but unscrupulous and dishonest lawyer, Lee Gentry (Rains) who boasts that he "lives by lies". His attempts to finish his affair with a clinging, besotted cabaret artist do not go according to plan. Rains is on top form and turns in a marvellously wicked performance.
Cast
- Claude Rains as Lee Gentry
- Margo as Carmen Brown
- Whitney Bourne as Katy Costello
- Stanley Ridges as Eddie White
- Leslie Adams as District Attorney O'Brien
- Fanny Brice as Extra (uncredited)
- Helen Hayes as Extra (uncredited)
- Esther Dale as Miss Keeley (uncredited)
- Greta Granstedt as Della (uncredited)
- Paula Trueman as Buster Malloy (uncredited)
Bibliography
- EAMES, John Douglas, The Paramount Story, London: Octopus Books, 1985
- MATTOS, A. C. Gomes de, Hollywood Anos 30, Rio de Janeiro: EBAL - Editora Brasil-América, 1991 (Portuguese)
External links
- Crime Without Passion at the TCM Movie Database
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Crime Without Passion at IMDb
- "The Furies," opening montage sequence of Crime Without Passion, special effects by Slavko Vorkapich
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- 1934 films
- English-language films
- Articles with unsourced statements from October 2012
- Articles with Portuguese-language external links
- 1930s drama films
- American films
- American black-and-white films
- Paramount Pictures films
- American drama films
- Screenplays by Ben Hecht
- Screenplays by Charles MacArthur
- 1930s drama film stubs