Remake of "Penthouse" (1933).
Walter Pidgeon plays lawyer Christopher Durant, who works in a prestigious law firm, but he has a penchant for the lower criminal classes and is able to get mobster Tony Gazotti found not guilty of a charge. Gazotti, who calls Durant "sweetheart" is deeply indebted to him.
Christopher and his fiancé Sue break up; she has fallen for his friend, Phil Siddall. The two part amicably.
Siddall winds up arrested for murder of his ex-girlfriend Judy Barton. (For some reason, she calls him and asks to meet him, just so she can tell him off - and he goes! A shot is fired, which Siddall thinks is a backfire, and then he notices she is bleeding. A gun lands at his feet, and he picks it up.)
Sue asks Christopher for his help, and he turns to Gazotti for the lowdown on people who might be involved. He introduces Christopher to a nightclub singer, Pat Abbott who lived in the same building as Judy and knows some of the characters...
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