Crime Without Passion is an odd, almost existential murder yarn. Famed  attorney Claude Rains, incensed that his mistress (Margo) has been  seeing other men, kills the girl—or at least thinks he does. Rains believes  he is "above" such irritations as conscience and morality, and calmly  arranges to cover his crime, using his knowledge of the law to escape  detection. But Rains cannot truly escape from himself, and is cajoled by a  surprising turn of events to break down and confess. Crime without  Passion was ostensibly directed by Ben Hecht, who cowrote the  screenplay with his longtime partner Charles McArthur, but most of the  actual direction was the responsibility of cameraman Lee Garmes. Watch  for cameo appearances by Fanny Brice, by MacArthur's wife Helen Hayes,  and by Hecht and MacArthur themselves.  Manufactured on Demand using DVD-R Media