Crime Without Passion

Crime Without Passion

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
Release dates	August 30, 1934 (1934-08-30)
Running time	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.

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
Crime Without Passion at the Internet Movie Database
"The Furies," opening montage sequence of Crime Without Passion, special effects by Slavko Vorkapich

Selected Ben Hecht works

Films directed	Actor's and Sin (also produced) Specter of the Rose (also produced) Angels Over Broadway (also produced) The Scoundrel Crime Without Passion

Screenplays written	Kiss of Death Circus World Billy Rose's Jumbo Queen of Outer Space Legend of the Lost The Sun Also Rises A Farewell to Arms Miracle in the Rain The Iron Petticoat The Indian Fighter Living It Up Ulysses Monkey Business Actor's and Sin Where the Sidewalk Ends Perfect Strangers Whirlpool The Miracle of the Bells Ride the Pink Horse Kiss of Death Notorious A Flag is Born Specter of the Rose Spellbound The Black Swan Lydia Comrade X Angels Over Broadway His Girl Friday It's a Wonderful World Wuthering Heights Gunga Din The Goldwyn Follies Nothing Sacred The Scoundrel Barbary Coast The Florentine Dagger Crime Without Passion Viva Villa! Design for Living Turn Back the Clock Topaze Hallelujah, I'm a Bum Scarface The Unholy Garden Roadhouse Nights The Unholy Night The Great Gabbo Underworld

Plays written	The Front Page Twentieth Century Ladies and Gentlemen

Charles MacArthur

Plays written	Lulu Belle The Front Page Twentieth Century Ladies and Gentlemen

Family	Helen Hayes (2nd wife) James MacArthur (son) John D. MacArthur (brother)

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