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Pela Vida de um Homem

Título original: Penthouse
  • 1933
  • Approved
  • 1 h 30 min
AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
6,8/10
1,4 mil
SUA AVALIAÇÃO
Myrna Loy and Warner Baxter in Pela Vida de um Homem (1933)
Feel-Good RomanceGangsterLegal DramaWhodunnitCrimeDramaMysteryRomance

Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaA lawyer's fiancée leaves him after he defends a racketeer accused of murder, but she needs his help when her new beau is accused of killing an old flame.A lawyer's fiancée leaves him after he defends a racketeer accused of murder, but she needs his help when her new beau is accused of killing an old flame.A lawyer's fiancée leaves him after he defends a racketeer accused of murder, but she needs his help when her new beau is accused of killing an old flame.

  • Direção
    • W.S. Van Dyke
  • Roteiristas
    • Frances Goodrich
    • Albert Hackett
    • Arthur Somers Roche
  • Artistas
    • Warner Baxter
    • Myrna Loy
    • Charles Butterworth
  • Veja as informações de produção no IMDbPro
  • AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
    6,8/10
    1,4 mil
    SUA AVALIAÇÃO
    • Direção
      • W.S. Van Dyke
    • Roteiristas
      • Frances Goodrich
      • Albert Hackett
      • Arthur Somers Roche
    • Artistas
      • Warner Baxter
      • Myrna Loy
      • Charles Butterworth
    • 37Avaliações de usuários
    • 13Avaliações da crítica
  • Veja as informações de produção no IMDbPro
  • Veja as informações de produção no IMDbPro
    • Prêmios
      • 2 vitórias no total

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    Warner Baxter
    Warner Baxter
    • Jackson Durant
    Myrna Loy
    Myrna Loy
    • Gertie Waxted
    Charles Butterworth
    Charles Butterworth
    • Layton
    Mae Clarke
    Mae Clarke
    • Mimi Montagne
    Phillips Holmes
    Phillips Holmes
    • Tom Siddall
    C. Henry Gordon
    C. Henry Gordon
    • Jim Crelliman
    Martha Sleeper
    Martha Sleeper
    • Sue Leonard
    Nat Pendleton
    Nat Pendleton
    • Tony Gazotti
    George E. Stone
    George E. Stone
    • Murtoch
    Robert Emmett O'Connor
    Robert Emmett O'Connor
    • Stevens
    Raymond Hatton
    Raymond Hatton
    • Bodyguard
    Arthur Belasco
    • Bodyguard
    William Bailey
    William Bailey
    • Maitre D' - Pinnacle Club
    • (não creditado)
    Ed Brady
    Ed Brady
    • Man at Crelliman's Place
    • (não creditado)
    Lynton Brent
    Lynton Brent
    • Reporter
    • (não creditado)
    Theresa Harris
    Theresa Harris
    • Lili - Mimi's Maid
    • (não creditado)
    Edward Hearn
    Edward Hearn
    • Detective
    • (não creditado)
    Samuel S. Hinds
    Samuel S. Hinds
    • Stuyvesant - Durant's Law Partner
    • (não creditado)
    • Direção
      • W.S. Van Dyke
    • Roteiristas
      • Frances Goodrich
      • Albert Hackett
      • Arthur Somers Roche
    • Elenco e equipe completos
    • Produção, bilheteria e muito mais no IMDbPro

    Avaliações de usuários37

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    jaykay-10

    Fun and games in the underworld

    There is lots of entertainment value in this picture - quality acting, sharp dialog, quick pace - but those who are looking for a story based in realistic circumstances may be disappointed. Despite there being a goodly number of unsavory types among the characters, just about everyone comes across as clean-cut, friendly, ready with a smile, and not the least bit threatening. This takes the sharp edge off a picture with lots of promise in its early development. Nat Pendleton plays a crime boss as if he hasn't a care in the world, more than ready to use his resources to make others happy. The Myrna Loy character is appealing (much as her Nora Charles was), but defies explication: charming, intelligent, well-mannered and well-spoken, but content to serve the paying customers as a hostess/bar girl/prostitute. It just doesn't add up. Mae Clark, as a less refined colleague, is much more believable.

    [Don't fail to notice the latter, in a fit of anger, ready to throw a perfume bottle against the wall, then noticing the label and substituting a lesser brand; or Loy, keeping her composure as Warner Baxter chooses not to remain in her assigned room for the night, then immediately surveying her looks - right profile, left profile, hair, makeup - in a mirror, wondering if something has been lost.]

    The picture needs more grit, given its subject matter. Comic relief from Charles Butterworth and Tom Kennedy are just what it doesn't need.
    8MikeMagi

    Myrna Loy Nails It

    "Penthouse" is a first-rate example of "they don't make 'em like that anymore." The tale of a society lawyer turned criminal defense attorney -- out to prove the innocence of the accused murderer who waltzed off with his fiancée -- zips along. The dialog of the fabled Hackett-Goodrich team is sassy and clever. The relationship between lawyer Warner Baxter and Nat Pendleton as the racketeer who's his guardian angel perks up the plot. But it's Myrna Loy as the call girl who joins forces with Baxter to nail the real killer who shines. There are certain people the camera finds irresistible. And here, as the most lovable fallen woman of the pre-code era, Loy demonstrates the impish allure that would light up the screen for years to come.
    61930s_Time_Machine

    Thin Man, take one

    Chic, stylish gangster romantic fun - MGM style. As you'd expect from this writing-directing team, you get likeable heroes, villainous villains, damsels in distress, femme fatales - in fact every familiar stereotype you could possibly want all expertly blended together then hurled at your face like a grapefruit.

    For an early thirties picture, the cast is unusually large with an unusually multi-layered story. Despite this, because of its skilful and focused writing, the story is told with beautiful simplicity. As a murder mystery, it's perhaps a little too simple - the police division investigating here must have been the special needs department.... but that doesn't really matter. What matters are the relationships, the witty banter, the genuine tension, the fast moving action..... and which girl will Warner Baxter end up with?

    This was Woody Van Dyke's next project after the fabulous NIGHT COURT (a really fabulous film) so it had a lot to live up to but there was no need to worry. Virtually everything he made from now on such as THE THIN MAN was pure gold. In this he benefits from having a great lead - Clark Gable's dad or maybe older brother - Warner Baxter. The characters are the ultimate cliches but so what - that just gives it a comfy warm sense of familiarity. Myrna Loy plays the archetypal tart-with-a-heart and although I've always found her strangely sinister like one of Satan's demons in drag, I have to admit that she's actually not too bad in this. Warner Baxter however just oozes charm and sincerity - it's definitely his picture...... along with Nat Pendleton who plays the loveable not as bad as the nasty gangster, gangster.

    It's formulaic of course but it still has its own individual style and isn't a cheap imitation of a Warner Brothers gangster film. It's pure, classy MGM entertainment.
    7planktonrules

    Pretty good little mystery

    This film was made a year before Myrna Loy catapulted to super-stardom with the Thin Man movies. At this point in her career, she was still a relatively unknown actress with a long but generally undistinguished track record. Warner Baxter, on the other hand, was the bigger star--with starring roles in 42ND STREET, THE CISCO KID (and its sequel) and THE SQUAW MAN.

    Stylistically, the film is actually a lot like Baxter's B-movie series, The Crime Doctor, though in this case he plays a defense attorney who investigates crimes instead of a criminal psychiatrist who investigates crimes. Additionally, PENTHOUSE has a bit more style, polish and better acting than the Columbia Pictures series.

    The film begins with Baxter getting a big-time hood off for a crime he apparently did not commit (for once). However, in a odd scene, the other lawyers in the practice vote him out because they don't want to be associated with such riffraff and attorneys who defend them (Ethics and a law practice?!?! What planet did these lawyers come from anyway?!?!). Additionally, Baxter's stuck up fiancée breaks it off with him because of the unsavory element he chooses to defend. However, Baxter really isn't a jerk lawyer--he just feels that IF the guy is actually innocent, he deserves a strong defense attorney (duh). But in this bizarre As I said above, this is a film with the odd idea of an attorney PERSONALLY investigating and solving crimes which his friends or clients are accused of committing. In reality, this never happens and I can't imagine Johnny Cochran or Robert Shapiro doing this and it's a cliché you just have to accept or else the film makes very little sense.

    Along for the ride are Loy, Nat Pendleton (in one of his better and richer supporting roles) and a variety of other familiar faces (including veteran B actor, George E. Stone). It won't change your life and is a tad silly, but so well done that it's easy to forgive and enjoy.

    By the way, having Myrna Loy stay in Baxter's apartment (even though they were in separate rooms) probably never would have gotten past the censors just one year later after the new Production Code would be enacted. Nor would a single man (Baxter) have been allowed to show a single girl around his bedroom.
    7movingpicturegal

    The "Gangster Lawyer" and his Gang

    Quite decent crime mystery starring Warner Baxter as Jack Durant, a society lawyer who gets dumped by his law firm as well as his snooty girlfriend who doesn't want to marry a "gangster lawyer" (as she calls him) because he likes to defend criminal types such as gangsters, racketeers, bootleggers, and the like (doesn't fit in with her tennis, yacht dances, and lawn party lifestyle, I guess). Anyway, this gal immediately becomes engaged to a young "Park Avenue" man who soon gets arrested for murder - and Durant sets out to prove this young man was framed, along with the help of a gangster pal named Tony and Durant's newest female interest, a woman (played by Myrna Loy) who was best friends with the "night club hostess" who was murdered.

    This is an entertaining film with engaging story that held my interest. The story is somewhat predictable, but very interesting to watch with well done performances by all. I enjoyed Myrna Loy in this (though she is resigned to wearing the same big-front-bowed evening gown just about the entire film). Warner Baxter is handsome and smooth here - there is some amusing bedroom talk between him and Loy where she seems to want to spend the night with him, he wants to hold back and play the "gentleman". Nat Pendleton is fun here as Tony, the gangster with a good sense of humor. Quite good.

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    • Curiosidades
      The film opens with the actual May, 1933 cover of Cosmopolitan magazine; the issue in which Arthur Somers Roche's story appeared. The film went into production in August and was released in September that same year. This film is a tremendous example of how quickly a Hollywood studio could work back then. At the time, Cosmopolitan was a literary periodical, first published in 1886, and didn't become a "women's" magazine until the mid-1960s.
    • Erros de gravação
      When Gertie stands looking out Durant's apartment window, her left arm is up with her hand on her head, but when the shot changes to see her from the front, her arm is down and her hand is resting against the window frame.
    • Citações

      Jackson 'Jack' Durant: Oh, I've been stupid, very stupid.

      Gertie Waxted: Well, of course. You're a man.

    • Cenas durante ou pós-créditos
      The credits are shown over the pages of the Cosmopolitan magazine story that the film is based on.
    • Conexões
      Featured in Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home to (1990)
    • Trilhas sonoras
      Don't Blame Me
      (1933) (uncredited)

      Music by Jimmy McHugh

      Lyrics by Dorothy Fields

      Played at the Country Club

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    • Data de lançamento
      • 8 de setembro de 1933 (Estados Unidos da América)
    • País de origem
      • Estados Unidos da América
    • Idioma
      • Inglês
    • Também conhecido como
      • Penthouse
    • Locações de filme
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, Califórnia, EUA
    • Empresas de produção
      • Cosmopolitan Productions
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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