Crime Without Passion
Directed by Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Lee Garmes
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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Claude RainsLee Gentry
MargoCarmen Brown
Whitney BourneKaty Costello
Stanley RidgesEddie White
Fanny BriceWoman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
Esther DaleMiss Keeley (uncredited)
Greta GranstedtDella (uncredited)
Helen HayesWoman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)Explore the crew
- Director
- Ben Hecht
- Screenplay
- Ben Hecht
- Director
- Charles MacArthur
- Director of Photography
- Lee Garmes
- Editor
- Arthur Ellis
- Original Music Composer
- Frank Tours
- Director
- Lee Garmes
- Screenplay
- Charles MacArthur
- Producer
- Ben Hecht
- Producer
- Charles MacArthur