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

Release Date: 8 Sep 1933

Runtime: 1h 28m

Genre: Crime, Mystery

Director: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Cosmopolitan Productions

Production Companies: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Cosmopolitan Productions

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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Ratings

Average Vote: 6.7 (18 votes)

Cast

  • Jackson 'Jack' Durant: Warner Baxter
  • Gertie Waxted: Myrna Loy
  • Layton: Charles Butterworth
  • Mimi Montagne: Mae Clarke
  • Tom Siddall: Phillips Holmes
  • Jim Crelliman: C. Henry Gordon
  • Sue Leonard: Martha Sleeper
  • Tony Gazotti: Nat Pendleton
  • Tim Murtoch: George E. Stone
  • Police Lt. 'Steve' Stevens: Robert Emmett O'Connor
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