**SPOILERS** 1941 "Buddy Buddy" movie that has best of friends linemen Hank McHenry, Edward G, Robinson, and Johnny Marshall, George Raft, end up on he outs over a woman the sexy and cold as an iceberg Fay Duval, Marlene Dietrich, who by a series of unexpected circumstances came between them.
It all started so innocently with Fay's father lineman Antoine "Pops" Duval, Egon Brecher, having Johnny, who seemed to have an in with the local parole board, getting his troublesome daughter Fay sprung from prison while serving time on a pickpocket conviction. Meeting Fay outside the prison walls Johnny knew her racket, using men to get her way, but the love-sick and very impressionable Hank, Johnny's foreman at the State Bureau Power and Light, fell heads over heels for her. That's when Johhny and Hank told Fay the sad news that her father -Pops Duval- got electrocuted on the job by a fallen power line. The first thing that struck Johnny about Fay was how unfeeling she was when she heard of her fathers tragic death. As for Hank he was completely captivated by her cool and sexy personality.
Even with Fay working as a bar-girl and singer at Smiley Quinn's, Burton MacLane, clip-joint-The Midnight Club- didn't deter Hank from proposing marriage to her. Things seemed to go all right for the happily married couple until Johnny suffered a fall, while on the job, that laid him up in a hospital bed for months. It's then at Hank's insistence that Johnny was reluctantly made to stay at the McHenry house, for a few weeks convalescence, that things started going sour for everyone, Hank Johnny & Fay, involved!
Despite Fay having the hots for him Johnny couldn't betray his good friend Hank by having an affair with her. It's when Fay planned to leave Hank and go back to work as a bar-girl that Johnny finally put his foot down. As well as flooring Fay with a couple of well placed smacks! This all happened when Fay was arrested-in a police raid- at Smiley's joint-The Midnight Club-where she came back to look for work. Johnny attempt to keep Fay's arrest, as well as her walking out on him, from Hank soon backfires when Fay herself told her shocked and startled husband, who always thought she was in love with him, the truth about how she felt about him!
***SPOILER ALERT*** The tragic ending to the film "Manpower" had a deeply hurt Hank try to finish off his good friend Johnny at the top of a power grid in a driving rain-pour. Not being able to keep his balance, due to an on the job injury, Hank's attempt to do in Johnny fell apart together with himself. All this wasn't Johnny's fault but he still felt bad about what happened and the end of the movie he showed it. Which was by him not leaving his job, that Johnny planned to do, and take off with Fay. But instead go on living, and working, as if all of this had never happened!
It all started so innocently with Fay's father lineman Antoine "Pops" Duval, Egon Brecher, having Johnny, who seemed to have an in with the local parole board, getting his troublesome daughter Fay sprung from prison while serving time on a pickpocket conviction. Meeting Fay outside the prison walls Johnny knew her racket, using men to get her way, but the love-sick and very impressionable Hank, Johnny's foreman at the State Bureau Power and Light, fell heads over heels for her. That's when Johhny and Hank told Fay the sad news that her father -Pops Duval- got electrocuted on the job by a fallen power line. The first thing that struck Johnny about Fay was how unfeeling she was when she heard of her fathers tragic death. As for Hank he was completely captivated by her cool and sexy personality.
Even with Fay working as a bar-girl and singer at Smiley Quinn's, Burton MacLane, clip-joint-The Midnight Club- didn't deter Hank from proposing marriage to her. Things seemed to go all right for the happily married couple until Johnny suffered a fall, while on the job, that laid him up in a hospital bed for months. It's then at Hank's insistence that Johnny was reluctantly made to stay at the McHenry house, for a few weeks convalescence, that things started going sour for everyone, Hank Johnny & Fay, involved!
Despite Fay having the hots for him Johnny couldn't betray his good friend Hank by having an affair with her. It's when Fay planned to leave Hank and go back to work as a bar-girl that Johnny finally put his foot down. As well as flooring Fay with a couple of well placed smacks! This all happened when Fay was arrested-in a police raid- at Smiley's joint-The Midnight Club-where she came back to look for work. Johnny attempt to keep Fay's arrest, as well as her walking out on him, from Hank soon backfires when Fay herself told her shocked and startled husband, who always thought she was in love with him, the truth about how she felt about him!
***SPOILER ALERT*** The tragic ending to the film "Manpower" had a deeply hurt Hank try to finish off his good friend Johnny at the top of a power grid in a driving rain-pour. Not being able to keep his balance, due to an on the job injury, Hank's attempt to do in Johnny fell apart together with himself. All this wasn't Johnny's fault but he still felt bad about what happened and the end of the movie he showed it. Which was by him not leaving his job, that Johnny planned to do, and take off with Fay. But instead go on living, and working, as if all of this had never happened!