Penthouse
A strange romance in a penthouse- a sky high love-nest! A girl from nowhere bringing drama that screamed from the headlines!
Rating: 6.9 out of 10TMDB(21 votes)
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.
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Setting
Set in New York City
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Music
Music by William Axt
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Lucien Andriot
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Arthur Somers RocheStory
- Frances GoodrichScreenplay
- Albert HackettScreenplay
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 8, 1933
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
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In the United States
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Cast
Warner BaxterJackson 'Jack' Durant
Myrna LoyGertie Waxted
Charles ButterworthLayton
Mae ClarkeMimi Montagne
Phillips HolmesTom Siddall
C. Henry GordonJim Crelliman
Martha SleeperSue Leonard
Nat PendletonTony Gazotti
George E. StoneTim Murtoch
Robert Emmett O'ConnorPolice Lt. 'Steve' Stevens
Raymond HattonBodyguard- Arthur BelascoBodyguard
William BaileyMaitre D' at Pinnacle Club (uncredited)
Ed BradyMan at Crelliman's Place (uncredited)
Lynton BrentReporter (uncredited)
Theresa HarrisLili (uncredited)
Edward HearnDetective (uncredited)
Samuel S. HindsStuyvesant (uncredited)
Tom KennedyJoe (uncredited)
George MagrillCrelliman's Butler (uncredited)
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