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Penthouse
Release Date: September 08, 1933
| Year | : | 1933 |
| Slogan | : | «A strange romance in a penthouse- a sky high love-nest! A girl from nowhere bringing drama that screamed from the headlines!» |
| Genres | : | Crime, Drama, Mystery |
| Production Companies | : | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Cosmopolitan Productions |
| Director | : | W.S. Van Dyke |
| Producers | : | Hunt Stromberg |
| Writers | : | Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Arthur Somers Roche |
| RunTime | : | 88 mins. |
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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Main Actors
Warner Baxter
Character : Jackson 'Jack' Durant
Myrna Loy
Character : Gertie Waxted
Charles Butterworth
Character : Layton
Mae Clarke
Character : Mimi Montagne
Phillips Holmes
Character : Tom Siddall
C. Henry Gordon
Character : Jim Crelliman
Martha Sleeper
Character : Sue Leonard
Nat Pendleton
Character : Tony Gazotti
George E. Stone
Character : Tim Murtoch
Robert Emmett O'Connor
Character : Police Lt. 'Steve' Stevens
Raymond Hatton
Character : Bodyguard
Arthur Belasco
Character : Bodyguard
William Bailey
Character : Maitre D' at Pinnacle Club (uncredited)
Ed Brady
Character : Man at Crelliman's Place (uncredited)
Lynton Brent
Character : Reporter (uncredited)
Theresa Harris
Character : Lili (uncredited)
Edward Hearn
Character : Detective (uncredited)
Samuel S. Hinds
Character : Stuyvesant (uncredited)
Tom Kennedy
Character : Joe (uncredited)
George Magrill
Character : Crelliman's Butler (uncredited)
Miriam Marlin
Character : Lottie a Chorine (uncredited)
Henry Otho
Character : Crelliman's Henchman (uncredited)
Lee Phelps
Character : Detective (uncredited)
Frank Rice
Character : Unknown Man on Phone (uncredited)
William Stack
Character : Rutherford (uncredited)
Carl Stockdale
Character : Levi Levitoff (uncredited)
Charles Sullivan
Character : Crelliman's Henchman (uncredited)
Harry Tenbrook
Character : Customer at Crelliman's Place (uncredited)
Guy Usher
Character : News Editor (uncredited)
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