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      • Crime Without Passion is a 1934 American drama film directed by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur and 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.


      Plot


      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 two-timing affair with a clinging, besotted cabaret artist do not go according to plan.


      Cast




      Critical reception


      In The New York Times, Mordaunt Hall found "a drama blessed with marked originality and photographed with consummate artistry," and cited one of its many pluses as "that of having Claude Rains in the main rôle."


      Bibliography


      Eames, John Douglas, The Paramount Story, London: Octopus Books, 1985 ISBN 0-5175-5348-1


      References




      External links


      Crime Without Passion at the TCM Movie Database
      Crime Without Passion at IMDb
      "Crime without Passion (1934). Three stars." Review and film synopsis at wordpress.com
      "The Furies," opening montage sequence of Crime Without Passion, special effects by Slavko Vorkapich

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