Penthouse (1933)

6.9/10 88 min Crime Mystery

Overview

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.

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)

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