Skyline

Oct 8, 1931

1h 8m

★ 0.0

50 STORIES ABOVE THE STREET. Love and Hate battling it out on bare steel girders!

Overview

Skyline is a 1931 drama film directed by Sam Taylor and starring silent film veteran Thomas Meighan. It is based on a novel, East Side, West Side by Felix Riesenberg. It was produced and released by Fox Film Corporation.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Fox Film Corporation

Skyline Trailers

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Cast

Gordon A. McClellan

Thomas Meighan

John Breen

Hardie Albright

Katherine Kearny

Maureen O'Sullivan

Paula Lambert

Myrna Loy

Captain Breen

Stanley Fields

Kearny

Jack Kennedy

Judge West

Robert McWade

Gerry Gaige

Don Dillaway

Mrs. Kearny

Alice Ward

Rose Breen

Dorothy Peterson

Undetermined Role (uncredited)

Minna Gombell

Christian is a presenter at a small radio station. His wife Katrin directs traffic in a car park. Both are friends with Uwe, who runs a fast food kiosk, and Ellen, who works in a perfume shop. Their four lives are stuck in a rut. Until the day Chris and Ellen sleep together and upset the balance of the two couples...

6.2

Spoiled Children

Sep 6, 1977

Successful writer/director Bernard Rougerie is at a creative dead end and decides to isolate himself from his wife in order to complete the script for his next film. Bernard moves into an apartment building whose tenants are in the midst of a revolt against their abusive landlord. Reluctant at first, he joins their cause and then becomes involved in an affair with young, unemployed resident Anne.

6.1

Earthquake

Nov 15, 1974

Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.

7.0

The Towering Inferno

Dec 14, 1974

At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.

6.9

Man Push Cart

May 10, 2006

Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a former Pakistani rock star turned immigrant, drags his heavy cart along the streets of New York. And every morning, he sells coffee and donuts to a city he cannot call his own. One day, however, the pattern of this harsh existence is broken by a glimmer of hope for a better life.

0.0

You Don't Know Martin

Jul 6, 1987

A subtle play of characters, in which people who live isolated lives in concrete skyscrapers are tempted in particular situations.

4.2

Terror on the 40th Floor

Sep 17, 1974

A number of business people, keeping the Christmas Eve office party going longer than was originally intended, are beset by a fire that starts in the basement of their office building and creeps up at them from floor to floor.

5.3

Skyscraper Souls

Jul 16, 1932

After bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper, his board questions the propriety of the loan. Despite the devotion of longtime mistress Sarah, the ruthless David, while seeking bank mergers to protect his building, tries to seduce Sarah's secretary, Lynn. David then agrees to a plot by a bank board member to inflate his bank's stock and sell short — just before the market crashes.

0.0

Pelageya

Oct 17, 2022

No overview available.

5.9

Manhattan Tower

Dec 1, 1932

The lives of the residents of a Manhattan apartment building are intertwined with the actions of a crooked investor.

6.2

Backbone

Jun 6, 1975

An unbearable stench makes quite wide confusion among the residents of Belgrade. The microbiologist Pavle can not remember immediately where he smelled it, but recalls the event he witnessed as a child and the smell of a burning human. A visit to the crematorium gives him the assurance: The high number of suicides in the city has meant that the ovens are in continuous operation and will probably stay that way - because the stench is slowly making other people commit suicide, too.

5.6

High-Rise

Nov 22, 2015

Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control.

5.0

Protest

Jul 8, 1967

A man cannot bear the superficiality of human relationships, and when his best friend lets him down, he commits suicide by jumping off a skyscraper.

5.0

Firetrap

Mar 16, 2001

Master burglar Max Hopper is released early after three years and soon gets an exceptional job: stealing an advanced computer-chip from the IQ Industries headquarters. His first attempt fails; when he enters in cop uniform during an emergency board meeting, a fire quickly spreads- he considers it a godsend opportunity and stays, but soon has his hands too full saving other lives and just surviving to concentrate on the chip; only the owner, his wife who just filed for divorce and a few employees remain, but it soon turns out one of them stole company secrets but the arsonist and/or another chip-thieves are among them.

5.8

The Lift

May 11, 1983

A lift technician finds himself drawn into a web of mystery and peril as he investigates the perplexing deadly accidents occurring in the elevators of a new office building.