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

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.

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