Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Tuesday, Jully 5 - Crime Without Passion

Crime Without Passion (1934)

Film begins with a wild montage of near nude furies soaring over Manhattan and attacking various sinners. Then we go to the center of the story, attorney Lee Gentry (a superb Claude Rains), a womanizing, authority hating egomaniac. During an argument with his mistress, singer Carman Brown (Margo) Gentry accidentally fires a gun at Carman. Thinking her dead, he builds up an alibi. Torn by the fear that he might get caught by a legal system he belittles, he goes deeper into insanity and crime.

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