The Penthouse

An exercise in sadism and masochism that is well done but was made only to satisfy an audience's basest instincts. The story began as a play and the film looks it, as the bulk of the action is claustrophobically confined to the penthouse in an unfinished apartment building. Morgan, a realtor, has access to the furnished penthouse that he uses for illicit trysts with Kendall. He is a married man with children, but he has assured Kendall that he'll dump the family as soon as the right moment comes along (hah!). They are at the flat early one day when the doorbell rings. Beckley stands there with his assistant, Rodway, and says he has come to read the gas meter. Kenda...