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Verbrechen ohne Leidenschaft

Originaltitel: Crime Without Passion
  • 1934
  • Approved
  • 1 Std. 10 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
7,0/10
650
IHRE BEWERTUNG
Claude Rains, Whitney Bourne, and Margo in Verbrechen ohne Leidenschaft (1934)
DramaKriminalität

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuProminent lawyer shoots unfaithful girlfriend during quarrel, has to establish alibi.Prominent lawyer shoots unfaithful girlfriend during quarrel, has to establish alibi.Prominent lawyer shoots unfaithful girlfriend during quarrel, has to establish alibi.

  • Regie
    • Lee Garmes
    • Ben Hecht
    • Charles MacArthur
  • Drehbuch
    • Ben Hecht
    • Charles MacArthur
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Claude Rains
    • Margo
    • Whitney Bourne
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
  • IMDb-BEWERTUNG
    7,0/10
    650
    IHRE BEWERTUNG
    • Regie
      • Lee Garmes
      • Ben Hecht
      • Charles MacArthur
    • Drehbuch
      • Ben Hecht
      • Charles MacArthur
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Claude Rains
      • Margo
      • Whitney Bourne
    • 20Benutzerrezensionen
    • 8Kritische Rezensionen
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
    • Auszeichnungen
      • 3 wins total

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    Claude Rains
    Claude Rains
    • Lee Gentry
    Margo
    Margo
    • Carmen Brown
    Whitney Bourne
    Whitney Bourne
    • Katy Costello
    Stanley Ridges
    Stanley Ridges
    • Eddie White
    Leslie Adams
    • State's Attorney O'Brien
    Alice Anthon
    • Undetermined Role
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Dorothy Bradshaw
    • A Fury
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    Fanny Brice
    Fanny Brice
    • Extra in hotel lobby
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    Jack Carr
    • Defendant
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    Esther Dale
    Esther Dale
    • Miss Keeley
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Fraye Gilbert
    • A Fury
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    Greta Granstedt
    Greta Granstedt
    • Della
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    Helen Hayes
    Helen Hayes
    • Extra in hotel lobby
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    Ben Hecht
    Ben Hecht
    • Court interviewer with pipe
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    Ethelyne Holt
    • Undetermined Role
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Charles Anthony Hughes
    • Undetermined Role
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Alice Jefferson
    • Undetermined Role
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Charles Kennedy
    • Police Lt. Norton
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    • Regie
      • Lee Garmes
      • Ben Hecht
      • Charles MacArthur
    • Drehbuch
      • Ben Hecht
      • Charles MacArthur
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    8AlsExGal

    Oh, the irony!

    This is an unusual and surreal little film, starting from the beginning. The prologue says that the three furies go about the world enticing people to do evil. Then a shadowed figure of a man shoots a woman in cold blood and out of the droplets of the blood come the three furies, looking and laughing like female demons racing into the night.

    Then we are in criminal attorney Lee Gentry's (Claude Rains) office. He is mentioning to his legal secretary how he wants to get rid of his current girlfriend, Carmen Brown, a cabaret dancer (Margo), but that instead of that he wound up in a flurry of kisses and vows with her, once again. He wants to dump her for the ice queen, Katy, who does not seem nearly as enthused about him as he is about her. Basically Gentry delivers a monologue about how he just can't resist figuring out what makes the women in his life tick, getting them head over heels in love with him, and then their adoration repels him and causes him to reject them. You get the feeling that maybe Gentry has a 50ish legal secretary exactly because he does not want his bad personal romantic habits to follow him into the office.

    In the next scenes Gentry gets everybody on his bad side, the prosecutor, the police, he even sets up a situation to make it look like he feels Carmen has been unfaithful and that is why he is leaving her, making her feel their breakup is her own fault. Up to now everything Gentry has done is because he thinks he is better than everybody else, smarter, that he can take what he wants and not care for other people's feelings. And then he performs one unselfish act and it turns into what could be construed as murder. The police and prosecutors are certainly not going to go easy on him or believe him after he has made fools of them in court on a regular basis. So he sets out to make it look like he could not have committed the murder. His legal mind constructs an intricate alibi, even setting up an alternate fall guy for the murder.

    How does this all pan out? Watch and find out. The ending is like a cross between something Robert Serling and Alfred Hitchcock would come up with. Highly recommended. This practically one man show will hold your interest throughout partly due to Ben Hecht's talented writing and direction, and partly due to Rains' outstanding performance.
    7Hitchcoc

    Claude Reigns, Almost

    This is actually a movie about a lost soul. Claude Rains plays a successful lawyer with virtually no moral standards. He is despised by his peers and embarrasses the police, time and time again. Beyond that, he is a cruel womanizer. He uses women and throws them away. He has a thing for a dancer in a nightclub. She had a previous affair with a serious adversary of Rains. Rains sets up a situation where the young woman can't win, and eventually he cruelly drives her to despair. This is quirky. See the first and last scene with the furies. Amazing stuff for the 1030's. I got a great kick out of this film.
    8Dara-3

    Don't miss the beginning...or the end.

    Beginning with an incredible sequence of the furies, this film about a successful attorney who believes he is far superior to the rest of mankind is a tour de force for the amazing Claude Rains. Very much an early 30's film with those wonderful Freudian overtones. (Margo, the dancer who plays Rains' mistress, was married to Eddie Albert, "Green Acres" and is the mother of Edward Albert, "Butterflies are Free".)
    7kevinolzak

    The film debut of Margo, opposite Claude Rains

    1934's "Crime Without Passion" is a rarely seen independent written, produced, and directed by regular writing team Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur ("The Front Page"), which was followed by three more in a span of two years- "The Scoundrel," "Once in a Blue Moon," and "Soak the Rich" (Hecht directed three more without MacArthur, who never directed again). Shot on Long Island in May-June 1934, this was Claude Rains' first feature since the phenomenal success of his Hollywood debut "The Invisible Man," and the actual film debut of actress/dancer Margo, niece of Xavier Cugat, remembered as the wife of GREEN ACRES' Eddie Albert, and mother of Edward Lawrence Albert (who looked just like his beautiful mother). Top billed Rains excels as Lee Gentry, smug, self-satisfied defense attorney, cool under fire in the courtroom, dismissing his guilty clients as little more than insects, using women much the same way. On one hand is long suffering lover Carmen Brown (Margo), who simply cannot let go, while he has since fallen for Katy Costello, who would rather they part as friends (played by Whitney Bourne, also making her film debut, finishing with less than a dozen credits). The lustful Gentry schemes to rid himself of Carmen, first falsely accusing her of seeing an old flame (Stanley Ridges), then confronting her in her apartment (with a loaded gun). Things go badly as he unintentionally shoots her, then must build an alibi for himself, desperately trying to maintain his composure with his own neck in the hangman's noose. A welcome last gasp of pre-code paranoia, a fascinating study of a most unlikable lead character; Claude Rains continued his newfound stardom in "The Man Who Reclaimed His Head," "Mystery of Edwin Drood," and "The Clairvoyant." Surprise cameos from Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur as reporters interviewing Gentry 10 minutes in, even more surprising cameos from their respective wives 48 minutes in, Fanny Brice and Helen Hayes, seen by the camera panning through a hotel lobby. Another feature debut is that of Paula Trueman, a ubiquitous presence playing elderly eccentrics in the 70s and 80s, looking very much like Fanny Brice's 'Baby Snooks' in her scene stealing role as Buster Malloy, Carmen's stage partner, who inadvertently aids the despised Gentry with his meticulously plotted alibi.
    theowinthrop

    Putting the clock on trial.

    This rarely seen film was the third one made by Claude Rains, and only his second talkie. It was made just after THE INVISIBLE MAN, which gave Rains one of moviedom's best introductory film roles. So CRIME WITHOUT PASSION was sort of hidden by it's predecessor. This is rather curious because it was an early independent film, and it's creators were Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur (the authors of TWENTIETH CENTURY and THE FRONT PAGE; Mr. MacArthur was also the husband of Helen Hayes). This was the first of two independent films made by them, the other being THE SCOUNDREL, a film about an amoral publisher played by Noel Coward. Both are interesting movies, though neither are above better - than - average. Being relatively cheaply made, their defects are too glaring (special effects are quite modest and...well cheap!).

    If people remember CRIME WITHOUT PASSION it is because of an early scene where Rains' clever lawyer wins an acquittal by putting a grandfather clock on the stand (symbolically, of course - it doesn't begin speaking and answering questions). The acting is uneven. Rains is superb, but Margo was always a heavy breathing/heavy speaking actress. Probably, she was available from Broadway productions in nearby Manhattan (the film was shot in the Astoria Paramount Studios).

    The role of the crooked "mouthpiece" probably was based on William Fallon, the leading criminal attorney in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. Fallon frequently won acquittals of notorious gangsters, crooked politicians, and criminals. He was not afraid of going beyond the law - even getting into bribing juries. But he was a gifted attorney when he concentrated on his job (unfortunately he was also a heavy drinker, which destroyed his career and shortened his life). Unlike Rains, however, Fallon never killed anybody.

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      According to cinematographer Lee Garmes, "I directed about 60 to 70 percent of the picture; we'd start at 9 a.m. and some days Hecht [Ben Hecht] was there, some days MacArthur [Charles MacArthur]; they'd start working on the picture at 11 a.m.! So they relied on me. They set the style of how they wanted the dialogue done, and I would direct the whole physical side of it."
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      Lee Gentry: You know you sometimes make up for your stupidity as a prosecutor, Mr O'Brien, by these outbursts of civic virtue.

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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 30. August 1934 (Vereinigte Staaten)
    • Herkunftsland
      • Vereinigte Staaten
    • Sprachen
      • Englisch
      • Spanisch
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      • Crime Without Passion
    • Drehorte
      • Paramount Studios, Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York, USA(Studio)
    • Produktionsfirma
      • Hecht-MacArthur Productions
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