The Crime of the Century is a 1933 American Pre-Code mystery film directed by William Beaudine and featuring a star-studded cast including Jean Hersholt, Wynne Gibson, Stuart Erwin, Frances Dee, and David Landau.
A bank official, whom a doctor had earlier hypnotized to obtain money from the bank's vault, is found murdered.
As of mid October 1932, the scenario was reportedly still being written by Endre Bohem and Florence Ryerson and filming was scheduled to begin November 16, 1932, though by December filming still had not started.