Penthouse

Penthouse

★ 6.9IMDb Score
Released:1933-09-08
Duration:88 min
Director:W.S. Van Dyke
Actors:Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Charles Butterworth, Mae Clarke, Phillips Holmes
Production:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Cosmopolitan Productions

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.

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