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Penthouse(1933)
Status: Released
Date: 1933-09-08
67%
19 Votes
Time: 1h 28m
A strange romance in a penthouse- a sky high love-nest! A girl from nowhere bringing drama that screamed from the headlines!
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.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies: 
Cosmopolitan Productions
Movie: Penthouse
Top 10 Billed Cast
Warner Baxter
Jackson 'Jack' Durant
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
George E. Stone
Tim Murtoch
Robert Emmett O'Connor
Police Lt. 'Steve' Stevens
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