| Soak the Rich | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Ben Hecht Charles MacArthur |
| Screenplay by | Ben Hecht Charles MacArthur |
| Produced by | Ben Hecht Charles MacArthur |
| Starring | Walter Connolly John Howard Mary Zimbalist Lionel Stander Ilka Chase Alice Duer Miller |
| Cinematography | Leon Shamroy |
| Edited by | Leo Zochling |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Soak the Rich is a 1936 Americancomedy film written and directed byBen Hecht andCharles MacArthur, and starringWalter Connolly,John Howard, Mary Zimbalist,Lionel Stander,Ilka Chase andAlice Duer Miller. It was released on January 17, 1936, byParamount Pictures.[1]
Humphrey Craig is a tycoon who has endowed a university. His idealistic daughter Belinda enrolls 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 .
Frank Nugent ofThe New York Times wrote, "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."[2]
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