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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)

Crime Without Passion
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Released in USA 30 august 1934
Length 1h10
Directed by ,    ,    
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Crime
Rating70% 3.520723.520723.520723.520723.52072

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.
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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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