Penthouse (film)

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

Penthouse (film) poster

Charles Butterworth

Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Release date(s) September 8, 1933

Running time 90 minutes

Country United States

Language English

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.

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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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