In "Fatal Attraction," the borderline psychotic played by Glenn Close lives (significantly) in an industrial building with exposed wiring, chipped plaster walls and a scary open-cage elevator.

We rode the open-cage elevator to the fourth floor, went along a gloomy hall to a door painted a peeling brown.

It had an old open-cage elevator with a venerable attendant; you could look down the shaft as you went up.

In the 1930's, a wave of fireproofing requirements in multiple dwellings required the elimination of the building's open-cage elevator.

De Ruse crossed the lobby and went up three steps and got into an open-cage elevator that started with a lurch.

An open-cage elevator from the 1890s has wrought and cast-iron features that have been restored and painted with historically accurate colors.

Or at least that was the effect as the 0 open-cage elevator dropped below the dry ground and L began its rickety descent.

The tower also has an early, perhaps original, open-cage elevator and a tightly curved open spiral stair providing vertical travel as dramatic as in any John Portman hotel.

The open-cage elevator, at least 15 feet high, squeaks up and down the tracks.

It is also one of the grandest, with its Victorian wrought-iron balconies, marble staircases, and open-cage elevators surrounding a skylit atrium court.