Penthouse

Penthouse

88 mins | Drama, Crime, Mystery | Sept. 8, 1933

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.

Penthouse

88 mins | Drama, Crime, Mystery | Sept. 8, 1933

Penthouse
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.
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Cosmopolitan Productions
Original title Penthouse
Directors W.S. Van Dyke
Writers Arthur Somers Roche, Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich

Cast

Warner Baxter

as Jackson 'Jack' Durant

Myrna Loy

as Gertie Waxted

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

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)

Miriam Marlin

as Lottie a Chorine (uncredited)

Henry Otho

as Crelliman's Henchman (uncredited)

Lee Phelps

as Detective (uncredited)

Frank Rice

as Unknown Man on Phone (uncredited)

William Stack

as Rutherford (uncredited)

Carl Stockdale

as Levi Levitoff (uncredited)

Charles Sullivan

as Crelliman's Henchman (uncredited)

Harry Tenbrook

as Customer at Crelliman's Place (uncredited)

Guy Usher

as News Editor (uncredited)