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Penthouse

Penthouse

A strange romance in a penthouse- a sky high love-nest! A girl from nowhere bringing drama that screamed from the headlines!

1933•1h 28m•6.7/10
CrimeMystery

Ratings

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6.7/10(19)

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.

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Production

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Cosmopolitan Productions

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Warner Baxter

Warner Baxter

Jackson 'Jack' Durant

Myrna Loy

Myrna Loy

Gertie Waxted

Charles Butterworth

Charles Butterworth

Layton

Mae Clarke

Mae Clarke

Mimi Montagne

Phillips Holmes

Phillips Holmes

Tom Siddall

C. Henry Gordon

C. Henry Gordon

Jim Crelliman

Martha Sleeper

Martha Sleeper

Sue Leonard

Nat Pendleton

Nat Pendleton

Tony Gazotti

George E. Stone

George E. Stone

Tim Murtoch

Robert Emmett O'Connor

Robert Emmett O'Connor

Police Lt. 'Steve' Stevens

Raymond Hatton

Raymond Hatton

Bodyguard

Arthur Belasco

Bodyguard

William Bailey

William Bailey

Maitre D' at Pinnacle Club (uncredited)

Ed Brady

Ed Brady

Man at Crelliman's Place (uncredited)

Lynton Brent

Lynton Brent

Reporter (uncredited)

Theresa Harris

Theresa Harris

Lili (uncredited)

Edward Hearn

Edward Hearn

Detective (uncredited)

Samuel S. Hinds

Samuel S. Hinds

Stuyvesant (uncredited)

Tom Kennedy

Tom Kennedy

Joe (uncredited)

George Magrill

George Magrill

Crelliman's Butler (uncredited)

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