Aspirations and the lives of several people working at the gigantic Seacoast National Bank Building interweave in various plots. The most notable character is David Dwight, the womanizing bank owner who keeps his estranged wife happy by paying for her extravagant globetrotting. Dwight's long time secretary Sarah yearns for them to divorce so her affair with him can be legitimized. Sarah shows her good side by playing mother to the young innocent Lynn Harding, who she employs ... (Full plot summary below)
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Aspirations and the lives of several people working at the gigantic Seacoast National Bank Building interweave in various plots. The most notable character is David Dwight, the womanizing bank owner who keeps his estranged wife happy by paying for her extravagant globetrotting. Dwight's long time secretary Sarah yearns for them to divorce so her affair with him can be legitimized. Sarah shows her good side by playing mother to the young innocent Lynn Harding, who she employs as an assistant. Beautiful Miss Harding is relentlessly pursued by extroverted bank teller Tom Sheppard, but he is frustrated when Dwight lures her away with power and wealth. Then Dwight ruins everyone's finances in a successful bid to get full control of his skyscraper by manipulating the company's stock price. Now there doesn't appear to be anyone who can prevent the power monger from taking advantage of the ingenue Harding-or is there?
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| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzNot shy about parading around its hot young starlet Maureen O'Sullivan in lingerie. |
| User ReviewMichael BA plausibly, even artfully intertwined cross section of finance capitalist, monopoly capitalist life, from secretary and bank teller to the very top. (But the cleaning ladies, for example, are mere backdrop, like furniture.) |
| User ReviewDavid SWild AND mild. Pre-code winks and grins...plus degradation, ruination and (gulp!) death? |
| User ReviewAntonius BAfter watching enough of these pre-Code movies, you begin to notice a few recurring themes: women in lingerie for one contrived reason or another, references to an unmarried couple having had sex by showing them having breakfast, and men who aren't inclined to take 'no' for an answer, continuing to badger or paw a woman until she consents to go out with him. You'll find all of those things in 'Skyscraper Souls', an average movie for the time period which held my interest, but was not exceptional. Warren William plays the part of an executive whose passion is to erect and own a giant skyscraper, and he does well in the role. His character seems nice enough on the surface, well-spoken and polite, but it turns out that he'll do anything to get what he wants, including screw over his business partners, and tell his long-time mistress (a woman in the office) that he'd love to get married to her, but his wife won't consent to a divorce - when in fact he hasn't asked her for one. Hedda Hopper is fantastic as his wife, by the way, in the small role she has. When he notices his mistress's secretary, played by the lithe Maureen O'Sullivan, he starts putting the moves on her. O'Sullivan is also being aggressively pursued by a very annoying bank teller (Norman Foster) who she (somehow, painfully, argh) starts falling for, thus setting up one of the movie's conflicts. One of the problems the movie has is that none of the characters are all that likeable. That's not a requirement for a great film of course, and it's nice to see nuance and realism - but in this case, when it's heading for the ending it's heading for, it's hard to feel what the director Edgar Selwyn is trying to make us feel. Another problem is that it's a bit of muddled mix of drama and romantic comedy, which meanders about. The parts that relate to the corporate scheming bog down, although the insider trading and stock speculation is mildly interesting given it was just a few years after the great stock market crash. Overall, though, it's just a bit jumbled. Watch it for Warren William's smooth evil, and for the spirited and beautiful Maureen O'Sullivan, and you may enjoy it more than I did. |
| User ReviewKen TEarly 1930s portrait of a ruthless banker David Dwight (Warren William) who will stop at nothing to get what he wants including women and keeping the status of his wealth - his skyscraper which towers over the Empire State Building in New York. He is married, but is seeing another woman who is aging so he has set his sights on the beautiful Lynn Harding (Maureen O'Sullivan) who herself has recently started a relationship with bank clerk Norman Foster (Tom Shepherd). Dwight looks only for personal betterment without caring who he impacts - the movie does remind people of the current attitude of corporate America and certainly would have resonated back in the early 30s as a result of the depression. It is hard to believe however that a character as stunning and seemingly smart as O'Sullivan would be in a position to choose between becoming the lover of a married rich man or to become the wife of an oafish, jealous and penniless man. The sets are quite amazing and William delivers a convincing portrait of the ruthless businessman. A decent film from pre-code 30s Hollywood. |
