Manhattan Tower is a fascinating drama that centers on the employees and events in a high profile office in the Empire State Building. With beautiful shots of the mammoth skyscraper both inside and out, the setting is beyond compare for this film about money, greed, and ruthless ambition. A metaphor for the bad decision making that led to the Great Depression, the villain of Manhattan Tower is the embezzling boss who abuses his employees for his own gain. A revealing look at office politics in the early twentieth century, the film then becomes a fast paced emotional rollercoaster following the hopes and dreams of simple American workers. Manhattan Tower is powerfully meaningful as an example of American culture right after the stock market crash. And it’s beautiful to look at the powerful American symbol that had just been erected one year earlier, the Empire State Building.
