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Penthouse

A strange romance in a penthouse- a sky high love-nest! A girl from nowhere bringing drama that screamed from the headlines!
Sep 8, 1933 · 1h 28m
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Crime
Drama
Mystery

PLOT

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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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
Directed by W.S. Van Dyke

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Cosmopolitan Productions
Country
US

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