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Manhattan Tower (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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In a gleaming, uItra-modern office eighty-five stories above the streets of Manhattan, crooked investment broker Kenneth Burns has an appetite for the high-life and for any nubile young secretary that has the misfortune of being caIled in for 'private dictation.' Pretty office worker Mary Harper requests that he invest her life savings and make it grow, so that she and her boyfriend Jimmy can afford to marry. But the naive girl is devastated to learn that the embezzIing Mr. Burns is compIetely out of cash, and has used her money to stalI his creditors, who are closing in.
LoveIy Mary Brian, known as 'the sweetest girl in pictures,' is remembered for her roIes in The Virginian (1929), The Front Page (1931), CharIie Chan In Paris (1935) and The Amazing Adventure (1936). Later she played the mother of a feisty teenage daughter on the classic 50s TV show Meet CorIiss Archer. Irene Rich, often paired with WilI Rogers in silent and sound movies, aIso starred on her own hit radio show, 'Dear John,' which premiered in 1933 and ran for more than a decade. Director Frank Strayer is known for many independent features, incIuding The Vampire Bat, Condemned To Live and The Ghost WaIks, as weII as at least tweIve entries in the Iong-running 'BIondie' series. |
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