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Penthouse

1933, Movie, NR, 90 mins

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Pendleton shines as a powerful but sympathetic gangland chief, a pragmatist with a sense of humor, whose self-constructed empire is threatened by rival gangster Gordon. Baxter is a successful corporation lawyer who, bored with the legalistic doings of the high and mighty, craves the company of criminal clients. He takes on the defense of Pendleton, who has been accused of murder. He wins the case, but as a result loses both his prestigious position with a firm of Harvard att... read more leave a comment
Opening credits for director "One Take" Woody Van Dyke's 1933 potboiler Penthouse, followed by a big city news editor (Guy Usher) trying to make deadline on a mob trial verdict.
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Conversation seems risque at times as lawyer Jack (Warner Baxter) brings home Gertie (Myrna Loy), the roommate of a murder victim, for questioning, etc., in MGM's Penthouse, 1933.
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Lawyer Jackson Durant (Warner Baxter) is getting more praise than he wants after getting a not-guilty verdict in the trial of mobster client Tony (Nat Pendleton) in MGM's Penthouse, 1933.
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Victorious lawyer "Jack" Durant (Warner Baxter) joins friends at a society retreat where he finds girlfriend Sue (Martha Sleeper) unhappy with him and cavorting with Tom (Phillips Holmes) in Penthouse, 1933.
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Year: 1933
Rated NR

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Cast
Warner Baxter: Jackson Durant
Myrna Loy: Gertie Waxted
Charles Butterworth: Layton, Durant's Butler
Mae Clarke: Mimi Montagne
Phillips Holmes: Tom Siddall
C. Henry Gordon: Jim Crelliman

 

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