This look into the life of working in a steel mill has some interesting moments butt quickly loses its substance as the story pretty much goes nowhere. Ann Sheridan is fine and dandy as they restaurant owner whose family has worked in the steel mill for years, but the Romantic triangle she's involved in with Howard Duff and John Lund is actually quite dull. It all starts when Lund shows up at Sheridan's greasy spoon and gets into a fight with Duff over his seat, his steak and his sweetheart. If it wasn't for and Sheridan and a young Nancy Kulp as the heavilly accented waitress from Brooklyn, the opening of this film would have been a dud but it is one of the few highlights of the film.
There's real no substance to the romantic triangle between Sheridan and the two men because in spite of Duff's claim that Sheridan is his gal, it's apparent immediately. Sheridan is immediately taken to the handsome blond Lund. it turns out that Lund has inherited the steel mill and is there to get to know how it works, taken on a tour by Jeff who realizing that he is his boss decides to play nice. From there, it's all about Lund making his way with Sheridan, moving into the boarding house run by her parents, William Harrigan who works at the mail and Eileen Crowe.
Other than the opening scene with Culp calling out an order for steak and all the trimmings (Chopped with her amusing way of adding on coffee), this is memorable for the sequences inside the steel mill that shows how it works. It is dangerous and puts Papa Harrigan in jeopardy even though he claims that he has no intentions of ever retiring or even dying. It's a rather ordinary drama nicely filmed in color but minus any real soon in the romantic department.
There's real no substance to the romantic triangle between Sheridan and the two men because in spite of Duff's claim that Sheridan is his gal, it's apparent immediately. Sheridan is immediately taken to the handsome blond Lund. it turns out that Lund has inherited the steel mill and is there to get to know how it works, taken on a tour by Jeff who realizing that he is his boss decides to play nice. From there, it's all about Lund making his way with Sheridan, moving into the boarding house run by her parents, William Harrigan who works at the mail and Eileen Crowe.
Other than the opening scene with Culp calling out an order for steak and all the trimmings (Chopped with her amusing way of adding on coffee), this is memorable for the sequences inside the steel mill that shows how it works. It is dangerous and puts Papa Harrigan in jeopardy even though he claims that he has no intentions of ever retiring or even dying. It's a rather ordinary drama nicely filmed in color but minus any real soon in the romantic department.