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Auction History Result 5c0374 CRIME WITHOUT PASSION pressbook 1934 Claude Rains, Margo, Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, rare! Date Sold 7/23/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 11" x 17" [28 x 43 cm]; 18 pages). Also included is an ad supplement that has 6 pages. (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. Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this pressbook! Also note that pressbooks were prepared prior to a movie being released. Often, changes would be made in a movie advertising campaign (billing of actors, different images, etc.), and the theaters would print up special supplements that they would send out with the pressbooks that had already been printed. These supplements are very rare, far more rare than the pressbooks themselves! Some pressbooks would have no supplements, some would have one, and some would have several. Also note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this pressbook, and of course, the winner of this auction will receive the entire single pressbook we are auctioning (plus any supplements or heralds described above)! Also note that this pressbook is complete and uncut! Given that theater owners received pressbooks partly in order to create their newspaper advertising, and quite frequently cut them up for that purpose, it is rare to find a pressbook that IS complete and uncut! Condition: good, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut. The interior pages have darkened and the first few have some tiny bits of paper loss around the edges. Learn More about condition grades 
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