Crime Without Passion

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

Claude Rains

Claude Rains

as Lee Gentry

Margo

Margo

as Carmen Brown

Whitney Bourne

Whitney Bourne

as Katy Costello

Stanley Ridges

Stanley Ridges

as Eddie White

Leslie Adams

Leslie Adams

as State's Attorney O'Brien

Dorothy Bradshaw

Dorothy Bradshaw

as Jury Member (uncredited)

Fanny Brice

Fanny Brice

as Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)

Jack Carr

Jack Carr

as Defendant (uncredited)

Esther Dale

Esther Dale

as Miss Keeley (uncredited)

Fraye Gilbert

Fraye Gilbert

as Jury Member (uncredited)

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Claude Rains is good in this as the smug, intelligent lawyer "Gentry" who prides himself on being able to get even the most odious of criminals acquitted. That ensures that just about every one in law enforcement loathes him - until, that is, serendipity strikes a blow as he gets very jealous about ...

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