Penthouse (1933)

"A strange romance in a penthouse- a sky high love-nest! A girl from nowhere bringing drama that screamed from the headlines!"

Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out.