Movie: Penthouse

Top 10 Billed 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

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    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 Date

    1933-09-08

  • Average

    6.7

  • Rating:

    3.4 starts
  • Tagline

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

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  • Languages:

    English
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