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Skyscraper Souls

  • 1932
  • Passed
  • 1 Std. 39 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
7,2/10
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IHRE BEWERTUNG
Maureen O'Sullivan and Warren William in Skyscraper Souls (1932)
Romantic EpicWorkplace DramaDramaRomance

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuAn entrepreneur will let nothing stand in his way of acquiring a 100-story office building.An entrepreneur will let nothing stand in his way of acquiring a 100-story office building.An entrepreneur will let nothing stand in his way of acquiring a 100-story office building.

  • Regie
    • Edgar Selwyn
  • Drehbuch
    • Faith Baldwin
    • C. Gardner Sullivan
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Warren William
    • Maureen O'Sullivan
    • Gregory Ratoff
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  • IMDb-BEWERTUNG
    7,2/10
    1050
    IHRE BEWERTUNG
    • Regie
      • Edgar Selwyn
    • Drehbuch
      • Faith Baldwin
      • C. Gardner Sullivan
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Warren William
      • Maureen O'Sullivan
      • Gregory Ratoff
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    Warren William
    Warren William
    • David Dwight
    Maureen O'Sullivan
    Maureen O'Sullivan
    • Lynn Harding
    Gregory Ratoff
    Gregory Ratoff
    • Vinmont
    Anita Page
    Anita Page
    • Jenny LeGrande
    Verree Teasdale
    Verree Teasdale
    • Sarah Dennis
    Norman Foster
    Norman Foster
    • Tom
    George Barbier
    George Barbier
    • Charlie Norton
    Jean Hersholt
    Jean Hersholt
    • Jake Sorenson
    Wallace Ford
    Wallace Ford
    • Slim
    Hedda Hopper
    Hedda Hopper
    • Ella Dwight
    Helen Coburn
    • Myra
    John Marston
    • Bill
    Richard Alexander
    Richard Alexander
    • Man Tom Bumps Into
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    Oscar Apfel
    Oscar Apfel
    • Brewster's Associate
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    Frank Atkinson
    Frank Atkinson
    • Waiter At Party
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    Reginald Barlow
    Reginald Barlow
    • Brewster's Associate
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Harry C. Bradley
    Harry C. Bradley
    • Johnson, Dwight's Secretary
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Edward Brophy
    Edward Brophy
    • Man in Elevator
    • (Nicht genannt)
    • Regie
      • Edgar Selwyn
    • Drehbuch
      • Faith Baldwin
      • C. Gardner Sullivan
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    miller-4

    Skyscraper Souls is a witty and provocative look at business in the 1930's

    Skyscraper Souls is a witty and provocative look at business in the early 1930's. Full of risque and snappy comments, the movie is a fascinating look at a building and how its builder worked to keep it.

    The cast is brilliant led by Warren William as an astute but unscrupulous banker. Verree Teasdale is very sharp as Williams' lovely adminstrative aide. Her mature attitude towards Williams' advances is a highlight of the picture. She accepts that she will never be his wife, even though she loves him. He is too busy maintaining appearences, even though his wife and he are never together. Hedda Hopper is delightful as the wife who maintains a relationship from another continent, but comes to see William for money from time to time.

    A subplot involving Maureen O'Sullivan and Norman Foster is rather annoying.

    There is social commentary here as the workers in the building attempt to make a living while the big businessmen play with millions of dollars.

    The movie is sexy too. A scene with Jean Hersholt and Anita Page is very suggestive as are some scenes with Warren William and Verree Teasdale.

    Overall, the movie is very interesting and moves very quickly.
    clyons

    One of Maureen O'Sullivan's best films

    Back in the early 30's, Maureen O'Sullivan was the quintessential "good girl who wants to be bad", which is to say, she seemed prim and proper on the surface, but a powerfully sexy woman lay right underneath that surface, who would only come out for the right guy--or sometimes the wrong guy.

    Though she is not exactly the star of this movie, she did get second billing after Warren William, in spite of being so new to the motion picture biz. This was probably in response to her having appeared as Jane in the first Weissmuller Tarzan film, not long before. That remains her best role--she is essentially the protagonist in the first two Tarzan movies--she's the one who is changing, casting aside the sexual mores of her society, and joining Tarzan in his idyllic state of noble savagery.

    In the urban jungle of "Skyscraper Souls", she plays a less idyllic character, wanting to enjoy both sexual passion and social respectability, along with a decent income. Nobody can offer her everything she wants, so she's left with two imperfect choices--the poor young clerk she likes, who will offer marriage. And the sexy ruthless tycoon she REALLY likes, who will take her as his "ward" (that is to say, his mistress) and possibly cast her aside in a decade or so, assuming he isn't too old to care by that point. Of course, she'd be set for life, even if that happened. But by the point in the film where she gives into him, she almost seems past caring about that. She's tried to follow the rules, and society has only penalized her for it. The man who supposedly loves her doesn't trust her, and she's feeling powerfully drawn to David Dwight, who understands her perfectly, and doesn't stand in judgment of anybody--least of all himself. He's a bastard, who destroys people to get what he wants--but he doesn't pretend to be anything else. He doesn't care about respectability or morality. Very few rich men truly do, but most like to at least pretend.

    This pre-code film has it both ways, regarding the denouement of this particular sub-plot--you can, if you wish, believe that Lynn is saved from the proverbial Fate Worse Than Death, by the not entirely selfless intervention of her friend, Dwight's former mistress. But in truth, a number of days have passed since Lynn gave in to Dwight's advances, she seems awfully comfortable in his embrace, she's wearing clothes he bought for her, and is obviously living in his penthouse. Dwight is not the kind of man who is going to wait until he gets her on the yacht to have his pleasure. He's already gotten what he--and she--wanted. Even in the pre-code era, this is a bit too subversive, which is why the movie deftly clouds the issue of whether they've had sex or not. But there can be no doubt of her eagerness--by this point, she wouldn't leave Dwight for the bank clerk, even if the clerk could offer her everything she asked for.

    With Dwight gone, she'll marry her bank clerk, and raise a family, and perhaps count herself lucky to have gotten to experience a bit of the high life before settling down. But one wonders if the bank clerk will end up wondering why their first kid doesn't look like him. I'm reading a great deal into this, of course. I really hated the bank clerk, btw.

    ;-)
    gvb0907

    Solid Pre-Code Melodrama

    "Skyscraper Souls" is something of a poor man's "Grand Hotel." Instead of the Barrymore brothers, Greta Garbo, Wallace Beery, and Joan Crawford, we get Warren William, Jean Hersholt, Hedda Hopper, and Maureen O'Sullivan, but as was often the case in the 30s, MGM's second team plays as well as their first.

    For all its stars, "Grand Hotel" now seems pretty creaky and its characters generally not very engaging. The Weimar Berlin setting doesn't help matters; you can almost feel the sense of decay and resignation. "Skyscraper" is it's polar opposite. Although New York is in the grip of the Great Depression, you can't help but be swept up in the picture's vitality. The market may be crashing, but people haven't lost their spunk, especially William's ruthless tycoon, who's just thrown up a 100 story building - try finding one of those in Berlin.

    "Skyscraper" moves at a fast pace and its multiple plot lines mesh together quite well. Although it was made 70 years ago, both the financial and romantic entanglements seem very modern. Dave Dwight certainly would be at home in today's board room and most of the women come across as surprisingly contemporary. They aren't exactly feminists, but these girls don't take things lying down.

    Highly recommended to film buffs, students of the Depression era, and anyone who enjoys modern melodrama.
    10Ron Oliver

    High-Rise Drama In Neglected Film

    Utterly ruthless & immoral, the owner of New York's tallest building plots & schemes to keep control of his creation, trampling upon anyone who gets in his way. Others working in the great colossus also live lives of drama & everyday excitement. All these SKYSCRAPER SOULS will soon find themselves bound together by greed, lust, betrayal, suicide & murder.

    Practically screaming its pre-Production Code status, this neglected film is rather fascinating in the risqué development of its plot. Sex, both leering & suggested, plays an important role in the story. By making its hero a man both charming & completely treacherous, open to any underhand suggestion, it makes a lie out of Louis B. Mayer's assertion that all of MGM's product was family friendly. Even today, this is potent, powerful material. And absolutely engaging.

    Warren William is almost distressingly good as the unscrupulous building owner, around whom much of the action revolves. His blunt dishonesty almost makes chicanery respectable.

    The rest of the cast is equally proficient:

    Maureen O'Sullivan as a naive young secretary lusted over by William & loved by brash bank clerk Norman Foster.

    Gregory Ratoff, hilarious as a harried dressmaker.

    Anita Page as a brash prostitute/model beloved by noble jeweler Jean Hersholt.

    Verree Teasdale, William's mistress for 12 years, finally pushed to the breaking point.

    Wallace Ford as a radio announcer, tragically driven to desperation by his love of unhappily married Helen Coburn.

    George Barbier as a jolly fat debauchee, one of William's eventual financial victims.

    And Hedda Hopper, William's absent, knowing wife - very content with his money, but not his company.

    Movie mavens will also recognize Billy Gilbert as a lobby cigarette stand owner, Edward Brophy & Doris Lloyd as the man & woman in the elevator.
    9Rambler

    A Pre-Code delight

    Made before "the code" removed all "offensive" material from American movies, Skyscraper Souls combines the social commentary of a Warner Bros. film, the class of an MGM production, and the sleaziness of a pulp novel. Warren Williams, a great but sadly overlooked actor, is perfect as the nice-but-slimy David Dwight, bank entrepreneur, who has built a 100-story monument to himself and doesn't have the $30,000,000 to pay for it. How he gets the money and what happens to those who unwittingly fall into his trap, constitutes the main thrust of the narrative. The film is full of diverse characters, all trying to eek out a living in the towering Dwight Bldg. The many plotlines cross and criss-cross, and the end is more realistic than one would expect from a "Hollywood" film. Watch for it on TCM, or on Laserdisc, in the "Forbidden Hollywood" set.

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      Boris Karloff: (at around 20 mins) Approaching a ticket counter as Tom (Norman Foster) takes his leave. During filming of Die Maske des Fu-Manchu (1932), Boris Karloff took time off to appear in this film; the camera immediately cuts away once the actor appears, so the purpose behind his cameo seems to have been deleted.
    • Patzer
      When Lynn is working late, as she leaves Tom to bring the unfinished report to Mr. Dwight, the moving shadow of the boom mic is visible on the wall by the door.
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      David 'Dave' Dwight: Hello, Ham old egg! How are ya?

      'Ham' Hamilton: [as they shake hands] Fine.

      David 'Dave' Dwight: How's your wife?

      'Ham' Hamilton: Splendid. She's in Egypt, digging up ruins.

      David 'Dave' Dwight: Oh, she seems to like ruins,

      [looks down at Hamilton's feet]

      David 'Dave' Dwight: especially with spats on.

    • Verbindungen
      Featured in Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008)
    • Soundtracks
      Singin' in the Rain (1929)
      (uncredited)

      Music by Nacio Herb Brown

      Hummed by Norman Foster

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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 16. Juli 1932 (Vereinigte Staaten)
    • Herkunftsland
      • Vereinigte Staaten
    • Sprache
      • Englisch
    • Auch bekannt als
      • Skyscraper
    • Drehorte
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, Kalifornien, USA(Studio)
    • Produktionsfirmen
      • Cosmopolitan Productions
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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      • 382.000 $ (geschätzt)
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      1 Stunde 39 Minuten
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