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69% Critic Match
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 / 10• 1933• 1h 28m•NR• English
CrimeDramaMystery
Storyline
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 & Crew
Warner Baxter
Jackson 'Jack' Durant
Lead
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
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. W.S. Van Dyke's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Penthouse is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
