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Production company
  
Paramount Pictures

Production company
  
Paramount Pictures

6.6/10
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Edited by
  
Leo Zochling

Initial release
  
1936

Cinematography
  
Leon Shamroy

Directed by
  
Ben Hecht Charles MacArthur

Produced by
  
Ben Hecht Charles MacArthur

Screenplay by
  
Ben Hecht Charles MacArthur

Starring
  
Walter Connolly John Howard Mary Zimbalist Lionel Stander Ilka Chase Alice Duer Miller

Directors
  
Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur

Written by
  
Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur

Cast
  
Walter Connolly, Lionel Stander, Ilka Chase, John Howard

Similar
  
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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 .

Cast

  • Walter Connolly as Humphrey Craig
  • John Howard as Kenneth "Buzz" Jones
  • Mary Zimbalist as Belinda "Bindy" Craig
  • Lionel Stander as Muglia
  • Ilka Chase as Mrs. Mabel Craig
  • Alice Duer Miller as Miss Beasley
  • Francis Compton as Tulio
  • Joseph Sweeney as Capt. Pettijohn
  • John W. Call as Sign carrier
  • Edwin Phillips as Lockwood
  • Robert Wallsten as Tommy Hutchins
  • George Watts as Rockwell
  • Percy Kilbride as Everett
  • Isabelle Foster as Jenny
  • Edward Garvey as Dean A. S. Phillpotts
  • Allan Ross MacDougall as Keats
  • Cornelius MacSunday as Craig's butler
  • Reception

    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."

    References

    Soak the Rich Wikipedia