Manhattan Tower (1932) PRE-CODE HOLLYWOOD

[@carolmirelez170]

I just love these old movies! I watch them all the time! They don't make movies like these anymore! 💖💖💖

[@PizzaFLIX]

Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX. May the Sauce be with you. 🍕🍕🍕

[@michellefalleur960]

They really really don't, do they , I wonder if they could, every one and everything is so jaded now, there was a sort of optimism and lightness ? back then.

[@sarahs5340]

These pre code films are like diamonds.

[@thejerseyj9422]

The Empire State Building was only one year old at the time of this film. The lobby scenes were filmed in the actual lobby of the building. Manhattan in the 30's must have been quite a place.

[@RadioWhoPoo]

Yes, a totally different populace. Today it is swamped by illegals and corruption

[@billyrichards8834]

I was just in Manhattan in the Summer of (2021). With exception to a few decent areas, MOST of it is a TOTAL SLUM NOW.

[@sitarnut]

Typical of a Dem run city@@billyrichards8834

[@YO3A007]

I loved all the cinematic cuts and swipes and different angle views. The women were great. The men were heroic-comical and the villain-comical-tragic. Entertaining but a dark look at human nature. And ends in a moment of poverty and hope.

[@raysmith7543]

At first I was a bit ambivalent about this movie but I'm really glad that I gave it a chance. It was a window in to what many people were going through during the Great Depression. Absolutely marvelous. Also, it was amazing to me young Walter Brennan.

[@joeydog999]

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[@NajibaYawar]

I was about to give up on it and decided to read the comments. That is when I saw your comment and decided to stick with it. What a gem! :)

[@kevin-bp8jn]

@@joeydog999 3:44 5:03 He's hilarious in the second one.

[@DateTwoRelate]

One of the best Poverty Row features produced. For some, that isn't saying much but the film, in fact, is the only one Remington ever made! It was distributed by the equally tiny Ideal Pictures. Mary Brian actually is quite good in it and "the boss" is one we've all met at least once in our lives.

[@gregorypalmer5403]

Really good cast , including Brian, Jed Prouty , Hale Hamilton, Noel Francis, Nydia Westman , and poor Hall who claimed by drink before he was 40, iirc. All of them had Major Studio experience. Not sure who played the boss, " Mr. Burns" , but he was also very able.

[@robertwalker5521]

Mary Brian was once engaged to Cary Grant (Arcibald Leach) I believe.

[@elstongunn4277]

@@gregorypalmer5403 Don’t forget Walter Brennan!!

[@gregorypalmer5403]

@@elstongunn4277 You're right! He was everywhere !

[@Edward-jn5pl]

What a beautiful cinematic valentine to The Empire State Building and the age that built it.

[@michellefalleur960]

How beautifully put, gorgeous comment

[@jennygibbons1258]

A Deco delight. Thank you.

[@PizzaFLIX]

Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX

[@heatherfulmore3412]

Quite a delight

[@deguilhemcorinne418]

Second time I watch this movie, thank you all commentators because your comments made me focus this time on interesting details (the charabanc, the cricket clikers, the art déco environment, etc...). Mary Brian is very beautiful, I want to see her in other films. I love this precode period, which has much to say to our present days. Et bien sûr, un grand merci à M. Pizzaflix, cela va sans dire !

[@MeMe-lt7gd]

Auf wiedersehen

[@michellefalleur960]

This is So really good and enjoyable ! Loved it ! Very good acting, thank you so much for putting this on.

[@ksparks257]

thanks, Walter Brennan was a nice surprise

[@patriciapalmer1377]

Human nature never changes, just the names for it.

[@lorrainegillan6769]

The touring vehicle at the start of the movie is called a charabanc

[@janettecoleman1714]

Amazing vehicle

[@evanstansbury7483]

What a great looking film. Great shots. And so Art Deco...

[@dnb-ang]

Loved it! What a great bunch of characters!

[@berylilovethisfilmasis.tha4592]

thank you for the thoroughly entertaining movie. i miss these kinds of movies.

[@fromthesidelines]

4:02- an uncredited WALTER BRENNAN as the stuttering "Mechanic".

[@jennyburleigh1586]

Looks just like him to me!!

[@jimsatrom9535]

Thank you very much !!! I thought to myself: "That guy looks like a very young Walter Brennan, way before "To Have and Have Not" and "The Real McCoys".

[@patsulek1570]

Good catch

[@alvexok5523]

@@patsulek1570, you noticed at 4:54, he yells "holy shit!" when realizing he needed to call his girlfriend? Those words weren't usually in films back then, they must've overlooked it and forgot to edit it out.

[@patsulek1570]

@@alvexok5523n nn Popcornfuff jjjjj

[@kateholden2533]

Thank you for posting. Love the gag with the guy in the party suit wandering the whole work day looking for the party girl to give the street dress to.

[@BrokebackBob]

The Pentagon and the Empire State Building were built with the highest quality limestone from Indiana near where I was born and grew up.

[@thejerseyj5479]

Have you seen the movie "Breaking Away"? You might enjoy it. Also, those two buildings amounted to one heck of a lot of limestone.

[@kizpaws]

Really good movie with the funny corny parts mixed with some really good acting. Loved this movie, and thanks for the upload!♥

[@barbaralanders6049]

Love it! Great acting, interesting story, real characters with real problems, rather than just 'the good' and 'the bad' as in movies after 'pre-code'. All still worked out, except for the secretary who lost all her money. So did the couple, but instead they got married...

[@vleldaddio210]

The secretary was part of the couple who lost the money .What a coverup Burns didn't voluntarily Jump out the window which by the way for such a formidable building was very flimsy He was murdered by Mary's boyfriend due to the fighting nicely done by Whitney Mrs Burns Lover / Lawyer COVFEFE

[@gaminawulfsdottir3253]

Wow. What a great piece of cinematography.

[@michaelpatanella]

Nj guy here, born in 1977, 46 years old, and 95% of my television watching is exclusively 1930s. And some 1940s. Always been fascinated with life back then. The 1930s definitely still remains Hollywood's greatest decade. ESPECIALLY 1939

[@DuchessBirdie]

Thanks!

[@PizzaFLIX]

Thanks 🍕🍕🍕

[@johnbuchinsky3193]

THANK YOU. This was an enjoyable movie. I lived in NYC and had no idea this building was ever highlighted. Delightful.

[@elstongunn4277]

You had no idea that the Empire State Building was ever highlighted?????

[@peterlewis6324]

Wonderful hidden gem.

[@denisejohnson2960]

3:40 Walter Brennan was one of the joyful moments of the film.

[@keithharvey7230]

Nydia Westman was a lovely supporting character actress.She was in The Cat and the Canary.

[@joemacpherson1664]

Manhattan Tower is dramatic, intense, humorous and definitely, fascinating. I'm glad this was posted! For those who enjoyed watching it, please check out the 1932 film, Skyscraper Souls. It was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp. The story is equally dramatic, daring, quite scandalous and Yes, there's humor as well. The fictitious, 100 story Art Deco Style, Seacoast National Bank Building in New York City is where everything happens. Skyscraper Souls is available on the 2 DVD, 4 Pre-Code Hollywood film set, Forbidden Hollywood Archive Collection: Volume 7. All 4 presented titles are beautifully restored, and very bold for their time.

[@JoeMama827]

"Phone the Federal Reserve,they'll have plenty of currency'. LOL the more things change the more they stay the same.

[@HappyHarryHardon]

How about the reference to the flu in the beginning and that he’s going get his vaccine. Seems relevant.

[@SenorZorrozzz]

Thanks for posting this film. Some of these pre code films dealt with adult themes. The idea being that the common folk, the movie going public, would be intrigued by the back stories, the underground goings on n the lives of theory's, particularly in the city, among the wealthy. As the depression grew worse, say, 32, 33, 34, the public wanted to see the wealthy pay a price for the mis management of the economy. Thus, comics as the Three Stooges became huge starting around 34,35, by throwing pies at the rich, ruining their homes, their institutions etc. films about the underdog, poor guy who was up against the system were hits!

[@Robert_Manners]

In short they were more honest in there content and social themes, people had more realistic characters.

[@13crazydaze]

Don Diego Vega interesting! Thanks for the info.

[@Magnetron33]

Hmm Just like NOW!

[@DavidRice111]

Fine analysis D/D!

[@gregorypalmer5403]

Good observations. I never thought of the Three Stooges as Subversives but they certainly were ! Thanks.

[@suzieqwonder3089]

Good quality for 1933!

[@emilsuda4101]

SuzieQ: You mean good quality for the actual print or the story line?

[@susanpace9735]

The precode movies are gems

[@privatejimmy5861]

Gosh I miss my 30's.. n the 90's.. in Belmont Shore/Long Beach. Seems a lot has changed in the last 25 years. Not good changes either.

[@K-Riz314]

Indeed. Even worse now, three years later.

[@henrykujawa4427]

Not very pleasant... but, I LOVE the ending! So many problems solved in one swift move.

[@sunnyadams5842]

Pre-Code Obsessed! Thanks Pizzaflix!! 💜

[@GLeon-ov9yu]

The women's dresses were very feminine and pretty.

[@constancetalavera-rowe2961]

Do I understand that the girl wearing a going out dress come to work in that same dress?! Walk of shame! 1932?! Lol! Great movie

[@Catquick1957]

Pre Code. that would never have passed muster in the 40's

[@elainewallace7039]

Great Art Deco building.

[@ludditeneaderthal]

it's called the empire state building... it's still there. just about a half mile south is the world's first "sky scraper", the flat iron building. it's still there

[@Catquick1957]

See the "Ellicott Square" bldg. in Buffalo,NY. It was in the Robert Redford movie 'The Natural"

[@catmomjewett]

44:52 Isn’t that Walter Brennan? Only I can’t find him in the cast list. 🤔 I’m pretty sure I recognize Grandpappy Amos there. Yes! Found it in his Imdb. 😺

[@alexmckenna1171]

SO 1932 must be the year the cloche hat disappeared :-)

[@shelleymcafee8197]

Cute; Thank-You!

[@llongone2]

Mr. Burns...Excellent!

[@giorgiobaroni4903]

A brand new Empire State Building! Love it.

[@jimblue39]

Good movie, as were all of these "Pre Code" movies, thank you for sharing them.

[@alvexok5523]

I could tell that it was pre-code when at 4:54 he yells "holy shit!" when realizing he didn't call his girlfriend yet. "Shit" was no longer allowed in films after the code went into effect.

[@alvexok5523]

@Billy Tim Just before he runs off to grab his coat, that's sure what it sounds like he says. What did he say then?

[@653j521]

@@alvexok5523 He didn't say that.

[@dnb-ang]

Loved watching this! Thank you!

[@capricorntwenty]

I adore the pre-codes... and now what do have of quality..... no-one need answer....

[@kathleen3379]

This is such a cute movie....

[@cesarelombroso6735]

Very clever concept. Love pre-code films. Thanks for posting. 😀

[@Catquick1957]

21:24 "now this one works good for me! Only it makes me dizzier than usual!" LOL!!!!

[@williamneumyer7147]

A thousand dollars was a lot of money when it was real money, before Roosevelt stole all the gold.

[@jasonplatt2228]

Say what?

[@kenowens9021]

That's 3-time Oscar winner Walter Brennan stuttering at the 4 minute mark.

[@forwardplans8168]

I read once that Brennan's voice was the result of intake of Mustard gas in WWI.

[@Bill23799]

oh wow i didnt notice that was him

[@dballard8660]

Thought that was him but couldn't find him in the credits.

[@MichaelWilliams-zh1ee]

That's him alright. And he won Four Oscars.

[@cattycorner8]

he's so skinny!

[@gregbellinger5765]

Great to see Walter Brennan in an early movie. Won htree of Oscars.

[@ssgtmurphy4323]

When he called Spring 73100@ 1:04.…….. NYPD HQ was at 3100 Spring Street. The NYPD magazine was called Spring 3100

[@catholiccrusader5328]

Ii just love this movie; I've seen it twice before.

[@godlesshelp8503]

Gota love precode ... 3 Ribbits

[@dawnslater1065]

Cool touring vehicle at the beginning of this movie. What is that, a car bus? LOL.

[@RADIUMGLASS]

how some things never change.

[@fordlandau]

Dawn Slater charabanc

[@laurenalacroix-nw3ww]

Hello, timeless, thank u

[@TheSuzberry]

The spire at the top of the Empire State Building was supposed to be for dirigible moorings but the one time they tried was ... unsuccessful.

[@katherinelwooley7891]

Really? I didn’t know that. Thanks for the info. I wonder what was the purpose of the shot of the dirigible hovering over the building.

[@melindahudson6587]

This was great.almost better than the young and the restless😉

[@Blassieboy]

That's Walter Brenanan in the generator room.

[@frankiewoodhouse2914]

Walter Brennan played in over 230 films but the first 10 years he featured UNCREDITED in over 40!!!! films.

[@GetMeThere1]

I've never seen him quite that young. In fact I'm not sure I would have recognized him if you hadn't pointed it out.

[@653j521]

With no ear protection. I hope that din went in post production so the actors didn't go deaf in real life.

[@DondeArandas]

Wonderful picture!Thanks. Production value is amazing. 😁❤👌✌

[@wallylkonstanty7734]

Ah yes, when men wore hats not caps; when men and women dressed up

[@larkatmic]

Boy did we dress the part in those days. By the 1990s it was over. Now the look is exposed skin, plastic silicone body inserts, gauges, overweight people everywhere you turn, shorts, flip flops, baseball hats, body tattoos, and clothes that look like soiled rags.

[@653j521]

Maybe you need to pull yourself together. You are letting us all down.

[@annprince5298]

This is a good print unusual that it has kept crisp. Thought it was like the 1940,s not 1932

[@mistercash1000]

I loved this one Matt NY

[@susanpace9735]

I wonder what pills the secretary is taking

[@midwestslotdiva]

Good film! Wonder what those window washers that were concerned with the flu, would think about what's going on now? Thanks for the upload!

[@K-Riz314]

They'd likely forgo the safety straps if they saw the state of society and the world today.

[@653j521]

@@K-Riz314 As opposed to the state of the world in 1932? Read up on your history!

[@JS-fe8sx]

40 million+ died in the flu pandemic in 1918. I’m sure they took it very seriously, I also think it was a little satirical given their job.

[@susaneweinberg4411]

@@K-Riz314it was VERY bad then. Read up on some history of the era. No social safety net, no unemployment compensation, no social security, no workmen’s compensation. I wouldn’t trade those days with now.

[@DateTwoRelate]

An unusually good Poverty Row feature with the one exception being the annoying drunk whose presence was the functional equivalent of King Kong in a communal hot tub.

[@Caro_BlackMagdalene]

For a moment I thought it was the boyfriend who fell there x'D I had to rewind to see what happened lol it was a good movie, I love oldies! ;3

[@michaelmcgee8543]

back in the 30's if there were any jobs available during the depression, the married couples were working.It was too expensive for one to stay home.

[@tobymahaney7219]

Michael Mcgee it’s too expensive for one to stay at home now. The Great Depression was one of the symptoms of the stock exchange crashing and everyone lost their jobs...History repeats itself soon enough. One of the four horseman is the pale horse of disease and famine...both ridden through all of human history without any solution or any way to end either from the start to the finish...money does very little to solve these issues that have plagued Mankind.

[@michaelmcgee8543]

@@tobymahaney7219 Sure the Victorian era had ended and economical realities were waking people up.

[@reverendsaltine6852]

87 years ago...might as well be a hunnerd...lots of unusual camera angles.

[@granvillesexton7102]

52:52 I resemble that remark, "When you were a child I bet you used ti pull the legs off grasshoppers.." I feel really terrible bout hurting the grasshoppers, spiders..not so much.

[@robcat2075]

-A couple of the most suggestive lines of dialog I've heard in pre-code pictures. -Mr. Burns has the biggest office door I've ever seen. -It's interesting that this is "Poverty Row". It has a lot of elaborate "wipes" transitioning between scenes. Very early for those to be used.

[@susanpace9735]

The golden days of New York

[@653j521]

The Great Depression? 1932 was the depth of the despair and starvation. How can you possibly be that ignorant, or were you making a joke? They didn't turn a profit on the Empire State Building for many years, either.

[@willewinky6527]

Unbelievable this is 90 years ago.

[@SuperIliad]

Manhattan Tower, released USA 1 December 1932. Mary Brian as Mary Harper; Irene Rich as Ann Burns; James Hall as Jimmy Duncan; Hale Hamilton as David Witman; Noel Francis as Marge Lyon; Clay Clement as Kenneth Burns; Nydia Westman as Miss Wood; Jed Prouty as Mr. Hoyt; Billy Dooley as Crane-Eaton; Wade Boteler as Mr. Ramsay; William A. Boardway, Bank Executive; Walter Brennan, Mechanic; Ralph Brooks, Young Mechanic; Kernan Cripps as Inspector Ned Connors; Oliver Eckhardt, Information Clerk; Adolph Faylauer, Elevator Passenger; Eddie Foster, Crook; Raoul Freeman, Janitor; Henry Hall, Banker; Emmett King, Bank President; Tom London, Mechanic

[@amyepstein4868]

Thank you! I really appreciate cast lists without searching through Wikipedia and imdb. One great thing about the studio system was the fact that the players were contracted. Even if the films weren't good the actors still had work. So I recognize many. Which is neither here nor there... I just enjoy movies from the late '20s until the early '60s and I enjoy dialogs with others. 💃🕴🌃🏙🎬🎞📽

[@jimsatrom9535]

A Rolls Royce jumped through her window. Ya gotta love it !!!

[@gretchenbreeden5528]

Put the commercials at beginning so u don't have to turn movie off bc so many

[@dawnslater1065]

What commercials?

[@bear1134]

Gretchen Breeden, watch your movies on You TUBE, everything is free and no commercials.

[@rebeccalouisejohnson3772]

I loved this movie.

[@ikutu7771958]

Geez! What a drama. That little twit started it all and didn't even know it. I love these old movies for the style, the clothes, cars, furniture and the way they talk. I was born 90 years too late, lol.🥺

[@williamschlenger1518]

Great camera angles.

[@kevin-bp8jn]

41:08 Love the hypochondriac, she's probably got some good shit that drawer. 1932 alot of narcotics were still OTC.

[@lorrainemarshall4183]

The opening scene, all I could think about, was social distancing.

[@berylbattrick1246]

GOOD MOVIE, THANK YOU.

[@rodneyhendrix1292]

Nothing like a movie with a actual plot.....

[@aldapp5519]

Guy who stutters- Brennaman?? Ole Western movies??

[@michaelmcgee8543]

Liked it. Such a shame that Mary Brian only technicolor feature .the, lovable bride, 1931 only exist in fragments.

[@catlover34fl]

@A Tangerine Mary Brian was beautiful.

[@marktuyet]

thanks !

[@death2pc]

Wutta 'bout Mary and Jimmy's thousand smackaroos......?? I get the feeling Dave Witman MORE than made it right. Ya. Great gams on Marg, whew! I give this film four out of five jump out of windows.

[@richardmcnally2056]

A fun flick. Thanks Pizzaflix!

[@Northatlantic2012]

Very enjoyable file.

[@tommyjonq]

I'm not sure what a "bareback rider" is, but I think I want one.

[@spookygirl7761]

A naked rider. what that means.

[@myles5101]

Sometimes, to get ahead, you must show your behind.

[@juliavalevska5677]

Thank you for this film

[@secretariatgirl4249]

Uncredited young Walter Brennan in the turbine room at the start of the picture?

[@9094nancyj]

I like this movie a lot!

[@tinapatton7346]

Criminal 'Banksters'! Of course it's all then changed since then. It's far worse, but their cover-ups are soooo much better!!

[@charlotteriddle7303]

This really is an excellent movie

[@ebayerr]

$1185 was a whole lot of money in 1932,when people were making $20 a week.

[@Puddycat00]

ebayerr $20 a week? They were making less than that .

[@paulboakes3680]

The Great Depression didn't end until 1933 so having any job was good.

[@tonysimmons647]

I saw paycheck stubbs from my grandfather during the depression. He made $7 a week, gross.

[@shanasavage7450]

It's $20,391.17 in 2019! Wow!

[@alvexok5523]

@@tonysimmons647, $7 a week back then was equal to $134.25 a week today, not very good money. But still better than how many were back then, your grandfather was lucky he got that. The depression times were tougher than anything anybody ever deals with today. Today, even if you're broke, there are food pantries which usually give you bread, peanut butter, a few pieces of fruit, several different canned goods (vegetables, fruit, and maybe spaghettios), a box of mac and cheese or hamburger helper, and a choice of meat to choose from at many of them (1 lb pack of chicken, or ground beef, or etc.). Back then, there were the bread lines, and all that they literally gave you was 2 slices of plain bread, literally that was all. Some also gave you a cup of coffee too if you were lucky. If making $7 a week, you would've been able to eat more than just bread. Probably, depending on what you owed for other expenses, but you probably could afford several pieces of fruit and vegetables, one loaf of bread, some milk, butter, eggs, and probably one lb of meat per week, but no more than that, if earning $7 a week in the early 1930s

[@lanapoulliot7682]

Great old movie ❤

[@20thcenturyAV]

Great movie