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Production company Paramount Pictures | 6.6/10 IMDb Edited by Leo Zochling Initial release 1936 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Directed by Ben HechtCharles MacArthur Produced by Ben HechtCharles MacArthur Screenplay by Ben HechtCharles MacArthur Starring Walter ConnollyJohn HowardMary ZimbalistLionel StanderIlka ChaseAlice Duer Miller Cast Similar Father Takes a Wife, She Couldn't Take It, 5th Ave Girl, Campus Confessions, Brides Are Like That | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Soak the Rich is a 1936 American comedy film written and directed by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. The film stars Walter Connolly, John Howard, Mary Zimbalist, Lionel Stander, Ilka Chase and Alice Duer Miller. The film was released on January 17, 1936, by Paramount Pictures.
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Plot
Humphrey Craig is a tycoon who has endowed a university. His idealistic daughter Belinda enrols there, hoping to get some idea of the 'real world'. When Professor Popper lectures his students on the merits of a 'soak-the-rich' tax bill, Craig (who opposes the bill) gets Popper fired. Meanwhile, Joe Muglia is the leader of a band of radicals on campus. When the radicals protest the dismissal of Popper, Belinda falls in love with Buzz Jones, a radical, handsome idealist .
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Frank Nugent of The New York Times said, "Collegiate radicals come in for a rather cruel lampooning at the hands of those old die-hards, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, in the antic pair's latest picture, Soak the Rich, which moved into the Astor last night. Their spoofing of youth in revolt is frequently amusing and the quality of the dialogue proves that the premier filmmakers of Astoria have lost none of their wit. The same, alas, cannot be said of their sense of direction."