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Manhattan Tower

  • 1932
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 7min
NOTE IMDb
6,3/10
304
MA NOTE
Mary Brian in Manhattan Tower (1932)
CrimeDramaMysteryRomance

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueThe lives of a number of the workers and executives in a Manhattan skyscraper are affected by the actions of a philandering and crooked company boss.The lives of a number of the workers and executives in a Manhattan skyscraper are affected by the actions of a philandering and crooked company boss.The lives of a number of the workers and executives in a Manhattan skyscraper are affected by the actions of a philandering and crooked company boss.

  • Réalisation
    • Frank R. Strayer
  • Scénario
    • David Hempstead
    • Norman Houston
  • Casting principal
    • Mary Brian
    • Irene Rich
    • James Hall
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  • NOTE IMDb
    6,3/10
    304
    MA NOTE
    • Réalisation
      • Frank R. Strayer
    • Scénario
      • David Hempstead
      • Norman Houston
    • Casting principal
      • Mary Brian
      • Irene Rich
      • James Hall
    • 10avis d'utilisateurs
    • 2avis des critiques
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
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    Mary Brian
    Mary Brian
    • Mary Harper
    Irene Rich
    Irene Rich
    • Ann Burns
    James Hall
    James Hall
    • Jimmy Duncan
    Hale Hamilton
    Hale Hamilton
    • David Witman
    Noel Francis
    Noel Francis
    • Marge Lyon
    Clay Clement
    Clay Clement
    • Kenneth Burns
    Nydia Westman
    Nydia Westman
    • Miss Wood
    Jed Prouty
    Jed Prouty
    • Mr. Hoyt
    Billy Dooley
    Billy Dooley
    • Crane-Eaton
    Wade Boteler
    Wade Boteler
    • Mr. Ramsay
    William A. Boardway
    William A. Boardway
    • Bank Executive
    • (non crédité)
    Walter Brennan
    Walter Brennan
    • Mechanic
    • (non crédité)
    Ralph Brooks
    • Young Mechanic
    • (non crédité)
    Kernan Cripps
    Kernan Cripps
    • Inspector Ned Connors
    • (non crédité)
    Oliver Eckhardt
    Oliver Eckhardt
    • Information Clerk
    • (non crédité)
    Adolph Faylauer
    Adolph Faylauer
    • Elevator Passenger
    • (non crédité)
    Eddie Foster
    • Crook
    • (non crédité)
    Raoul Freeman
    • Janitor
    • (non crédité)
    • Réalisation
      • Frank R. Strayer
    • Scénario
      • David Hempstead
      • Norman Houston
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    7Derutterj-1

    Obscure but good

    Surprisingly entertaining B-movie about intertwined lives during a typical day in a downtown office tower. The cast is attractive, and there's a suitably despicable villain who gets what he deserves. Starts out looking like it's going to be a Grand Hotel knock-off but only one story is covered. Later a hint of the bank run of American Madness is thrown in sketchily. Like other such contemporary lower case pictures with similar styles & themes (such as Hotel Continental from the same year, which really IS a Grand Hotel knock-off), it has no street exteriors --saving money -- and moves satisfyingly fast with second-tier actors showing their stuff. But this one is distinguished by a really unusual scene-changing device making use of the skyscraper's vertical architecture really well. Made by a no-name company with a Gower Gulch list of techs and creative talent behind the camera.

    I had no idea this type of production could be so good.
    6AAdaSC

    Party still going on

    This is yet another story from 1932 about the lives of various people within a building. In this film, which borrows heavily from "Skyscraper Souls" (1932), the young lovers are played by Mary Brian (Mary) and James Hall (Jimmy) and they do a better job than their counterparts in "Skyscraper". Indeed both Mary and James don't have to learn to respond to a different name. It's been made easy for them by calling their characters Mary and Jimmy. I wonder if this was to help James and his drinking. It's sad to notice that he looks a fatter version of himself in "Hell Angels" two years previously. My wife and I both recognized his face but thought it must be a fatter actor that looks the same. Nope. Again, it is sad to learn of his drinking problem and fate and to then find out that this was also his final film. We both feel sorry for him and really like him now.

    As for the story, stick with it. The dialogue is funny in parts, the acting is fine and the director uses some interesting techniques. It's always interesting to see the period's fashions and there is even a zeppelin on show hovering above the tower. Noel Francis (Marge) makes good use of her role as the tarty secretary - check out her party dress - and secretary Nydia Westman (Miss Wood) has a funny scene when someone steals part of her lunch. The villain of the piece is played by Clay Clement. And his name in the film is Mr Burns. Just think of Mr Burns from "The Simpsons" and you've got a similarly heartless man at the top.

    However, it's a poverty row film and there are no real surprises to the tale. In the overall 'building' genre of films from 1932, this one sits in the middle. The best is "Skyscraper Souls" and the worst is "Grand Hotel".
    dougdoepke

    Entertaining Product of its Time

    Entertaining period piece, but little more. It's 1932 and neither banks nor the stock market are trusted, thanks to the financial crash of '29. On the other hand, the shots of Manhattan Tower resemble a soaring temple to the movie-makers confidence in both business and the future, despite the recent calamity. The tower shows level after rising level of bustling business people, also providing a good chance to catch ladies fashions of the day as they hustle in and out of offices. Too bad there's no glimpse of the impoverished masses that truly epitomize the age.

    The plot concerns the free-wheeling industrial executive Burns who's not above using other people's hard earned cash to float his own misbegotten investments. These shenanigans eventually culminate in a run on a cash strapped Tower bank and hardship for the workers. At the same time, Burns chases anything in skirts, his beleaguered wife be darned. So how will things straighten out.

    It's a low-budget, indie production with a largely lesser-known cast except for Bryan and Hall, and a few glimpses of an early Walter Brennan. The acting's okay, though, as others point out, the fistfight is amateurish, along with a cheaply done featureless sky in scenes from atop the tower. Also, the comedic scenes with the pill-popping secretary and the silly wandering drunk tell the audience that despite serious intent, it's only a movie after all. Besides, the occasionally clever innuendo provides all the chuckles needed.

    Overall, as a product of its time, the cheap flick succeeds importantly in giving us a one-sided glimpse of that stressed out time in a largely entertaining way.

    (In Passing-- in the year following this movie's release, namely 1933, Congress passed the New Deal's Federal Deposit Insurance legislation that insured bank deposits up to an elevated amount. The practical effect was to prevent 'bank runs' such as occur in the movie. Now depositors could rest easier if a bank got in trouble.)
    lor_

    It's only money?

    This is a highly entertaining artifact from my favorite year for movies: 1932! Taking plot twists and inevitability of peril over the top, it's a fascinating drama about the inhabitants of the fictional NYC skyscraper, all hurtling to an amazing climax. The details and coincidences here, not to mention strange comic relief, is the apotheosis of specifically Depression Era filmmaking.

    Many stories overlap, and the movie uses a strange style of editing that appealed to me tremendously: scenes flow from one to the next with the device of the frame moving vertically, as the screen shifts from one floor to another, quite different to watch than the usual vintage device of a horizontal wipe. Literally we are moving from one in the 102-floor building like in a doorless elevator. The actual elevators in the building are monitored by men with castanet-type clickers, making an unusual noise throughout the movie as they monitor the capacity of elevators ready to move.

    Central story is about a hard-working couple saving up to get married: Mary Brian a secretary for the film's heavy Mr. Burns, played with immense evil intent by Clay Bennett, and James Hall as Mary's boyfriend, a hot-headed manager working in the building's power department. Burns ends up embezzling Mary's nest egg (which is shared by Jimmy), while he's seducing her empty-headed, mean-spirited party girl fellow secretary played delightfully (in pre-Code dirty fashion) by Noel Francis; Hale Hamilton as Whitman, the bank executive who is in love with Mrs. Burns (Iris Rich in an emotional performance), and subject to horrible blackmail from Clay; plus other employees like Nydia Westman who is a real scene-stealer as Whitman's secretary.

    Westman inadvertently starts a panic run on Whitman's bank that leads to a thrilling climax that captures the near-paranoia associated with the Stock Market crash just a few years before. It's a modest film but amazing in its own way.
    3cherold

    High ambition meets low competence

    I don't know what to make of the rave reviews of this movie on IMDB. They *all* praise the story, which is really awful.

    I wanted to watch this movie because of curiosity about the director, Frank Strayer. He directed the early movies in the Blondie series and he was surprisingly adventurous for a b-movie director (one entry was even a musical). I was surprised that someone with so much artistic ambition was so forgotten.

    Manhattan Tower may be a good explanation of why.

    The movie starts very well, establishing the hustle and bustle of a skyscraper, with workers and business people toiling away and with birds-eye looks at the hectic streets below. There are quirky and original shots, most notably the way traveling through the elevator shaft is used to indicate height in the building.

    Unfortunately, the movie is painfully dull, involving a bickering couple and a sleazy executive. The story is as thin as gruel, both unpersuasive and completely predictable (hence my confusion at the IMDB reviews). The acting is abysmal. The financial stuff is a bit unclear. The comic relief of the drunk guy and the pill-popping receptionist fails to work.

    This, perhaps, is the difference between someone like Lewis Milestone and someone like Frank Strayer. They both liked to play with the camera, but the former understood that trick shots are nothing if you don't have a solid story behind them.

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    • Anecdotes
      One of a number of early 1930s films such as La ruée (1932) and Prospérité (1932) made on the subject of business corruption and banking practices in the wake of the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the onset of the Great Depression. In many cases, when reviewing the screenplays of these films prior to production, the censors demanded that such films must instill "confidence in banking institutions" and "big business" in the average American. The studios begrudgingly obliged.
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      Kenneth Burns: 'Brought that voucher for a thousand dollars?

      Mr. Hoyt: I won't take the responsibility. I can't.

      Kenneth Burns: Then you can take the consequences. You're through.

      Mr. Hoyt: I worked hard for you and the company.

      Kenneth Burns: Go on! Get out!

      Mr. Hoyt: Before I go, I want to tell you something. Everyone who works for you hates you. But they haven't the courage to tell you. Men like you always have someone in their employ whom they can torment and persecute. Someone weak and powerless who can't fight back. Someone like me. I suppose when you were a child, you pulled the legs of grasshoppers just to see them wriggle and squirm.

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    • Date de sortie
      • 1 décembre 1932 (États-Unis)
    • Pays d’origine
      • États-Unis
    • Langue
      • Anglais
    • Société de production
      • Remington Pictures
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    • Budget
      • 50 000 $US (estimé)
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    • Durée
      1 heure 7 minutes
    • Couleur
      • Black and White
    • Rapport de forme
      • 1.37 : 1

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