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Penthouse (1933)

Directed by W.S. Van Dyke

Drama | Mystery

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.

Rated NR | Length 88 minutes

Actors

Warner Baxter | Myrna Loy | Charles Butterworth | Mae Clarke | Phillips Holmes | C. Henry Gordon | Martha Sleeper | Nat Pendleton | George E. Stone | Robert Emmett O'Connor | Raymond Hatton | Arthur Belasco | William Bailey | Ed Brady | Lynton Brent | Theresa Harris | Edward Hearn | Samuel S. Hinds | Tom Kennedy | George Magrill | Miriam Marlin | Henry Otho | Lee Phelps | Frank Rice | William Stack | Carl Stockdale | Charles Sullivan | Harry Tenbrook | Guy Usher

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Another early so-so Myrna Loy film. She’s great and the movie perks up when she enters the story… but she doesn’t appear until 34 minutes into the movie!! It’s nuts. I wasn’t sure I was viewing the correct movie b/c she’s second billed and is nowhere to be found during the first act.

A better approach, given what does happen in the first act w/the murder, is compress it to 10 minutes then slide right to when Myrna Loy shows up.

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