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Auction History Result 2c008 CRIME WITHOUT PASSION 1/2sh 1934 Claude Rains, Margo, Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, very rare! Date Sold 12/12/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Style A Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) Crime Without Passion, the 1934 Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur romantic crime murder film noir (a really strange movie about a lawyer who specializes in acquitting guilty criminals; he plots to get rid of his current girlfriend so he can return to his past one, but an old boyfriend of hers gets involved, and when the lawyer appears to kill his girlfriend, it looks like the boyfriend did it; the lawyer tries to frame the boyfriend, and after many complicated developments, the lawyer ends up killing the boyfriend accidentally, but he is charged with the murder because of how it looks, and it turns out his girlfriend wasn't even killed!) starring Claude Rains, Whitney Bourne, Margo (16 years old in her first movie role!), Stanley Ridges, and Leslie Adams. This movie was one of four that Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur directed and wrote between 1934 and 1936. They found far greater success as a screenwriting team, and wrote many great classics! Also note that this was an incredibly depressing and mystical film noir (with a framing device about the "Three Furies"), implying that all people are basically bad. The noted pulp novelist Jim Thompson borrowed many elements from the plot of this movie for his novel, "The Killer Inside Me". NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that first release 1934 movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. We have only previously auctioned a one-sheet and some stills from this movie until we received this half-sheet! Also note that this poster has never been machine folded! Some pre-1970 half-sheet posters were machine folded twice horizontally at the poster exchange, while some were not. It can be difficult to find an unfolded example of many pre-1970 half-sheet posters (note that most post-1970 half-sheets were NOT machine folded, so they are pretty much only found unfolded, and therefore this does not apply to those half-sheets). Condition: good. The poster was never machine folded, but it has a vertical fold 3" from the right border. It has some creases, water staining, and smudges around the edges, with a vertical drip water stain in the lower left. It has a tiny stain in Rains' forehead and left, with some smudges and scuffs scattered in the image. Learn More about condition grades 
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