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Skyscraper Souls
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Wikipedia article
'Skyscraper Souls' is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic drama film starring Warren William, Anita Page, Maureen O'Sullivan, Gregory Ratoff, and Verree Teasdale.Rob (2014). [http://www.classicfilmguide.com/indexac76.html "Skyscraper Souls (1932)"], review, Classic Film Guide, originally posted August 29, 2014. Retrieved October 25, 2015. Directed by Edgar Selwyn, it is based on the 1931 novel 'Skyscraper' by Faith Baldwin.LoBianco, Lorraine. [http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2837/Skyscraper-Souls/articles.html "ARTICLES: Skyscraper Souls (1932)"], Turner Classic Movies (TCM), Turner Broadcasting System, a subsidiary of Time Warner, Inc., New York, N.Y. Retrieved September 7, 2018.
Plot
The film portrays the aspirations, daily lives, and tragedies experienced by several people in the fictional 100-story Seacoast National Bank Building in Manhattan. Among them is David Dwight, the womanizing bank owner who keeps his estranged wife, Ella, happy by paying her bills. His secretary Sarah wants him to get a divorce so they can marry.
Cast
Reception and box office
Upon the release of 'Skyscraper Souls' in the summer of 1932, 'The Film Daily', a widely read trade paper among movie-industry personnel and theater owners, gave the production a very positive review. The paper cited in particular the film's "swell cast" and the broad public appeal of its "fast-moving" plot, especially within the highly unstable environment of the United States' depressed economy at that time:
Mordaunt Hall, the respected film critic of 'The New York Times' in 1932, also praised the storyline of 'Skyscraper Souls', calling it "a rich measure of entertainment" and "replete with suspense and vitality."Hall, Mordaunt (1932). [https://www.nytimes.com/1932/08/05/archives/a-bankers-ambition.html "Banker's Ambition"], review of 'Skyscraper Souls', archives of 'The New York Times', August 5, 1932. Retrieved September 8, 2018. However, the weekly trade paper 'Variety'also one of the more influential reviewers in the entertainment industry at the timedisagreed with 'The Film Daily' and 'The New York Times' regarding their positive opinions about the film's plot, although 'Variety' did give generally high marks as well to the cast's performances:
With regard to the film's "box office" or the number of theater-ticket buyers it attracted, 'Skyscraper Souls' generated an appreciable profit for Cosmopolitan Productions and MGM. The film is reported to have earned $444,000 in the United States and Canada and $111,000 elsewhere, for an overall total of $555,000. Subtracting the film's reported budget of $382,000 from the cited gross derives a net profit on investment of $173,000.
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