Slideshow
PENTHOUSE
U.S., 1933
Directed by W. S. Van Dyke
Starring Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Phillips Holmes, Mae Clarke
Art Direction by Alexander Toluboff
Approx. 90 min. 35mm.
On the skids after helping mobster Nat Pendleton beat a murder rap, lawyer Warner Baxter gets dragged into defending his ex-girlfriend’s new flame on a charge of shooting his mistress, aided by mistress’s roommate Myrna Loy. Quips and twists keep coming, via machine-gun-paced direction from THIN MAN's Van Dyke.
Presented with support from The Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film