Penthouse
A strange romance in a penthouse- a sky high love-nest! A girl from nowhere bringing drama that screamed from the headlines!
6.9(21) 1933-09-08 88 minCrimeDramaMystery
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.
ProducerHunt Stromberg
DirectorW.S. Van Dyke
Original Music ComposerWilliam Axt
ScreenplayAlbert Hackett
ScreenplayFrances Goodrich
Cast & characters
Warner Baxter
as Jackson 'Jack' Durant
Myrna Loy
as Gertie Waxted
Charles Butterworth
as Layton
Mae Clarke
as Mimi Montagne
Phillips Holmes
as Tom Siddall
C. Henry Gordon
as Jim Crelliman
Martha Sleeper
as Sue Leonard
Nat Pendleton
as Tony Gazotti
George E. Stone
as Tim Murtoch
Robert Emmett O'Connor
as Police Lt. 'Steve' Stevens
Raymond Hatton
as Bodyguard
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Arthur Belasco
as Bodyguard
William Bailey
as Maitre D' at Pinnacle Club (uncredited)
Ed Brady
as Man at Crelliman's Place (uncredited)
Lynton Brent
as Reporter (uncredited)
Theresa Harris
as Lili (uncredited)
Edward Hearn
as Detective (uncredited)
Samuel S. Hinds
as Stuyvesant (uncredited)
Tom Kennedy
as Joe (uncredited)
George Magrill
as Crelliman's Butler (uncredited)
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Miriam Marlin
as Lottie a Chorine (uncredited)
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Henry Otho
as Crelliman's Henchman (uncredited)
Lee Phelps
as Detective (uncredited)
Frank Rice
as Unknown Man on Phone (uncredited)
