Directed by Raoul Walsh
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Hollywood hokum about a group of middle-aged men who risk their lives to bring us electricity by repairing transmission lines in bad weather. They lead incredibly immature lives chasing women, drinking themselves into oblivion and just being plain dumb. Edward G. Robinson is the pudgy foreman with a limp, who somehow convinces "clip joint" hustler Marlene Dietrich to marry him. He gets wasted on his honeymoon, only to wake up to find Marlene in a dress, apron and high heels cooking him biscuits. She eventually falls in love with his best friend and coworker George Raft, and they duke it out high on a transmission tower during a thunderstorm. It might qualify as "so bad it's good" entertainment.
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