Penthouse

1h 28m

Crime Mystery

6.7

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.

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

Raymond Hatton

Bodyguard

Arthur Belasco

Bodyguard

William Bailey

Maitre D' at Pinnacle Club (uncredited)

Ed Brady

Man at Crelliman's Place (uncredited)

Lynton Brent

Reporter (uncredited)

Theresa Harris

Lili (uncredited)

Edward Hearn

Detective (uncredited)

Samuel S. Hinds

Stuyvesant (uncredited)

Tom Kennedy

Joe (uncredited)

George Magrill

Crelliman's Butler (uncredited)

Miriam Marlin

Lottie a Chorine (uncredited)

Henry Otho

Crelliman's Henchman (uncredited)

Lee Phelps

Detective (uncredited)

Frank Rice

Unknown Man on Phone (uncredited)

William Stack

Rutherford (uncredited)

Carl Stockdale

Levi Levitoff (uncredited)

Charles Sullivan

Crelliman's Henchman (uncredited)

Harry Tenbrook

Customer at Crelliman's Place (uncredited)

Guy Usher

News Editor (uncredited)

Crew

Edwin B. Willis

Interior Designer

W.S. Van Dyke

Director

Albert Hackett

Screenplay

Frances Goodrich

Screenplay

Arthur Somers Roche

Story

Robert Kern

Editor

Lucien N. Andriot

Director of Photography

Harold Rosson

Director of Photography

Hunt Stromberg

Producer

Adrian

Costume Design

Douglas Shearer

Sound Director

William Axt

Original Music Composer

Alexander Toluboff

Art Direction