eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 6m026 CRIME WITHOUT PASSION linen 1sh '34 stone litho of lightning between Rains, Bourne & Margo! Date Sold 4/12/2015Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style A One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 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. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good to fine. The poster had an extra horizontal fold just above the regular bottom one, with very tiny paper loss at the crossfolds, and very minor fold and border wear. Overall, the poster was in very good to fine condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Note that the restorer who mounted the poster did not leave any excess linen around the edges of the poster. Learn More about condition grades
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