Penthouse
Gertie Waxted knows how a notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. No more. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durantin a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 28 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: October 6, 2009
- Originally Released: 1933
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Mae Clarke, Charles Butterworth & Phillips Holmes | |
Directed by | W.S. Van Dyke | |
Screenwriting by | Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich & Arthur Somers Roche | |
Composition by | William Axt | |
Director of Photography: | Harold Rosson & Lucien Andriot |
Entertainment Reviews:
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User Ratings: 68
Rating: B --
It's a good preview for the upcoming superior series of The Thin Man.
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Gertie Waxted (Myrna Loy) knows how a notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. No more. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant (Warner Baxter) in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out. And there's something else that won't stay hush-hush: Gertie and Jackson are falling in love.
"This girl's going to be a big star!" director W.S. Van Dyke declared about Loy, who heretofore had often been cast in minor, exotic roles. The filmmaker was instrumental in making his prediction come true, casting Loy with William Powell the next year in her starmaking "The Thin Man."
"This girl's going to be a big star!" director W.S. Van Dyke declared about Loy, who heretofore had often been cast in minor, exotic roles. The filmmaker was instrumental in making his prediction come true, casting Loy with William Powell the next year in her starmaking "The Thin Man."
Product Description:
Society-lawyer Warner Baxter loses his prestige in the legal community when he successfully defends gangster boss Nat Pendleton. Later on, the soft-hearted Pendleton gets the opportunity to "do right" by saving Baxter's life. This redemptive move comes at the end of a complicated plot involving Baxter's efforts to save Phillips Holmes, who has been framed by nasty mobster C. Henry Gordon, from the hot seat. He is aided in this effort by Gordon's former mistress Myrna Loy, who has all of the film's best lines (When her protecter Baxter falls asleep on a couch, Loy complains "A few more nights like this and I'll be out of condition.") Also in the cast of PENTHOUSE is crime-movie perennial Mae Clarke, here cast as the murder victim. PENTHOUSE was later remade (and highly sanitized in the process) as SOCIETY LAWYER, with Walter Pidgeon in the Warner Baxter part.
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