Penthouse
“A strange romance in a penthouse- a sky high love-nest! A girl from nowhere bringing drama that screamed from the headlines!”
1933•NR•1h 28m•6.9•Released
CrimeMystery
Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out.
Director
W.S. Van Dyke
Writer
Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich
Languages
English
Studio
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cast
Warner Baxter
Jackson 'Jack' Durant
Myrna Loy
Gertie Waxted
Charles Butterworth
Layton
Mae Clarke
Mimi Montagne
Phillips Holmes
Tom Siddall
C. Henry Gordon
Jim Crelliman
Martha Sleeper
Sue Leonard
Nat Pendleton
Tony Gazotti
George E. Stone
Tim Murtoch
Robert Emmett O'Connor
Police Lt. 'Steve' Stevens
Raymond Hatton
Bodyguard
Arthur Belasco
Bodyguard
William Bailey
Maitre D' at Pinnacle Club (uncredited)
Ed Brady
Man at Crelliman's Place (uncredited)
Lynton Brent
Reporter (uncredited)
Production
Company
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Company
Cosmopolitan Productions
Producer
Hunt Stromberg
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