Penthouse (film)

Infobox Film
name = Penthouse


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director = W.S. Van Dyke
producer = Hunt Stromberg
writer = Frances Goodrich
Albert Hackett
Arthur Somers Roche (story)
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starring = Warner Baxter
Myrna Loy
Charles Butterworth
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distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
released = September 8, 1933
runtime = 90 minutes
country = USA
language = English
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imdb_id = 0024435

"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.

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

External links

*imdb title|id=0024435|title=Penthouse
* [http://www.tcmdb.com/title/title.jsp?stid=3279 Turner Classic Movies overview]