Penthouse
“A strange romance in a penthouse- a sky high love-nest! A girl from nowhere bringing drama that screamed from the headlines!”
Director
W.S. Van Dyke
Screenplay
Arthur Somers Roche, Frances Goodrich
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.
Release
Sep 8, 1933
Budget
—
Country
United States of America
Revenue
—
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
William Bailey
Maitre D' at Pinnacle Club (uncredited)
Ed Brady
Man at Crelliman's Place (uncredited)
Lynton Brent
Reporter (uncredited)
Theresa Harris
Lili (uncredited)
Edward Hearn
Detective (uncredited)
Samuel S. Hinds
Stuyvesant (uncredited)
Tom Kennedy
Joe (uncredited)
George Magrill
Crelliman's Butler (uncredited)
Lee Phelps
Detective (uncredited)
Frank Rice
Unknown Man on Phone (uncredited)
William Stack
Rutherford (uncredited)
Carl Stockdale
Levi Levitoff (uncredited)
Charles Sullivan
Crelliman's Henchman (uncredited)
Harry Tenbrook
Customer at Crelliman's Place (uncredited)
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From the same director: W.S. Van Dyke
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