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Penthouse (Warner Archive) (1933)
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| Starring: | Myrna Loy, Warner Baxter, Charles Butterworth, Mae Clarke, Phillips Holmes, C. Henry Gordon, Martha Sleeper, Nat Pendleton, George E. Stone, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Raymond Hatton |
| Director: | W.S. Van Dyke |
| Genre: | Drama, Romance, Crime, Mystery/Thriller |
| Year: | 1933 |
| Studio: | Warner Home Video |
| Length: | 88 minutes |
| Released: | October 6, 2009 |
| Rating: | NR |
| Format: | DVD |
| Misc: | NTSC, Full Screen, Black & White |
| Language: | English(Original Language) |
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SYNOPSIS: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.
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There are 2 reviews for this movie |
 | Jeff | | Caught this on TCM quite awhile ago, and have been waiting for it on DVD ever since. Myrna Loy (playing a character named Gertie!) is the woman of the world we've all wanted to meet, and Baxter is as smooth as they come. Nice to see Mae Clark not being menaced by monsters and gangsters, too. Very cosmopolitan and urbane and realistic, the kind of flick they stopped making a year later, thanks to the upright uptight moral majority of the day, who didn't want to know how things really are. |
|  | M Robert | | Despite the presence of Myrna Loy, this is a disappointing movie. There is not much chemistry between Loy and Baxter...we can only imagine how much better this might have been with William Powell. The story is silly and thin, and the crime makes little sense. There is some good pre-code dialog full of innuendo, plus a few decent gags here and there. However, I would have enjoyed watching a Loy-Powell movie for the 3rd or 4th time more than watching this one once. |
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