Penthouse (film)
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| Penthouse | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | W.S. Van Dyke |
| Produced by | Hunt Stromberg |
| Written by | Frances Goodrich Albert Hackett Arthur Somers Roche (story) |
| Starring | Warner Baxter Myrna Loy Charles Butterworth |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date(s) | September 8, 1933 |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
Penthouse is a 1933 black-and-white crime film starring Warner Baxter as a lawyer whose clients are less than upright and Myrna Loy as a call girl who helps him with a murder case.
The risqué pre-Code movie was later remade as the more sanitized Society Lawyer in 1939.
[edit] Cast
- 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, the accused
- C. Henry Gordon as Jim Crelliman
- Martha Sleeper as Sue Leonard
- Nat Pendleton as Tony Gaziotti, a gangster
- George E. Stone as Tim Murtoch
- Robert Emmett O'Connor as police lieutenant 'Steve' Stevens
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