Tall orders: the best film skyscrapers – in pictures

Hollywood is drawn to multi-storey architecture like … well, like a colossal prehistoric gorilla is drawn to multi-storey architecture. From the caped crusader posing on rooftops in The Dark Knight to Phillipe Petit's death-defying walk between the twin towers in Man on Wire, here's a selection of the greatest movie moments involving everyone's favourite phallic symbol
  
  


Skyscrapers in film: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, film still
Jeremy Renner and Tom Cruise, ahem, hang out in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011) Photograph: Paramount/Everett/Rex Features
Skyscrapers in film: Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol film still
Cruise as Ethan Hunt in the same film Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar
Skyscrapers in film: Man On A LedgeMan On A Ledge film still
Sam Worthington as a suicidal ex-con in Man on a Ledge (2012) Photograph: PR
Skyscrapers in film: The Dark Knight film still
Christian Bale's Batman takes off in The Dark Knight (2008) Photograph: Warner Bros/Everett/Rex Features
Skyscrapers in film: Transformers: Dark of the Moon film still
A still from Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) Photograph: Paramount/Everett/Rex Features
Skyscrapers in film: 1933 King Kong gilm still
King Kong stands on top of the Empire State Building in the original 1933 version
Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/RKO Photograph: O/Allstar/Cinetext/RKO
Skyscrapers in film: King Kong film still
And here's Kong at the same point in Peter Jackon's remake (2005) Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar
Skyscrapers in film: Harold Lloyd in Safety Last, 1927
Silent comedy titan Harold Lloyd in Safety Last! (1923) Photograph: Rex Features
Skyscrapers in film: Man on Wire film still
Philippe Petit balanced a quarter of a mile above the New York sidewalk in Man on Wire (2008). Here, he is pictured on a high wire in Sydney Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar
Skyscrapers in film: The Towering Inferno film still
A shot from The Towering Inferno (1974) Photograph: 20th-Century Fox/Everett/Rex Features
 

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