High Tension

No, it's not about men working on electrical lines Brian Donlevy is the guy they call when there's a break in the San Francisco-Honolulu telegraph cable and they need someone to go down and fix it. Norman Foster is the guy he's training, and Glenda Farrell the writer who converts his tall tales into pulp stories. She agrees to be engaged to him if he can hold an office job for six months, so Foster gets the job supervising the Honolulu office, But although he makes the right decisions, he doesn't have the clout to get them executed, so Donlevy chucks his job and shows up, giving the orders in Foster's name, and romancing Helen Wood, the secretary Foster is sweet on

Donlevy is fine as the big-talking, get-it-done guy under the direction of Allan Dwan, back in Hollywood and back in the B lot at Fox. It's fast, it's breezy, it's a muscular movie, and Miss Farrell runs her motor mouth at full speed. With Robert McWade, Theodore von Eltz, and Hattie MacDaniel.