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Crime Without Passion is a american film of genre Drama directed by Lee Garmes released in USA on 30 august 1934 with Claude Rains
Crime Without Passion (1934)
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Add to a movie listCrime 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.
Actors
Claude Rains
(Lee Gentry)
Margo
(Carmen Brown)
Stanley Ridges
(Eddie White)
Whitney Bourne
(Katy Costello)
Fanny Brice
(Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited))
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