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Crime Without Passion

Crime Without Passion

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 30, 1934

Runtime

1h 10m

Genres

Crime, Drama

User Score

58%

Original Title

Crime Without Passion

Production Companies

Hecht-MacArthur Productions, Paramount Pictures

Director

Ben Hecht

Description

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.