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Crime Without Passion (1934)
Directed by Ben Hecht, Lee Garmes, 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.
Length 70 minutes
Actors
Claude Rains | Margo | Whitney Bourne | Stanley Ridges | Leslie Adams | Dorothy Bradshaw | Fanny Brice | Jack Carr | Esther Dale | Fraye Gilbert | Greta Granstedt | Helen Hayes | Ben Hecht | Charles Anthony Hughes | Charles Kennedy | Charles MacArthur | Cornelius MacSunday | Marjorie Main | Marion Martin | Fuller Mellish | Betty Real | Betty Sundmark | Paula Trueman