Crime ·Mystery · United States of America · 1933 · 1h 28m

Penthouse

Director

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 C. Henry Gordon as Jim Crelliman

Crew

Lucien N. Andriot — Director of Photography Harold Rosson — Director of Photography Robert Kern — Editor William Axt — Original Music Composer Albert Hackett — Screenplay Frances Goodrich — Screenplay

Tagline

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

Synopsis

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.

Mood & Themes

Key Collaborators

W.S. Van Dyke Director Lucien N. Andriot Director of Photography Harold Rosson Director of Photography Robert Kern Editor William Axt Original Music Composer Albert Hackett Screenplay Frances Goodrich Screenplay Arthur Somers Roche Story Hunt Stromberg Producer Adrian Costume Design

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