Brian Donlevy and Glenda Farrell star in "High Tension" from (1936). I don't know about the tension, but the energy is sure high.
Brian Donlevy plays expert cable layer Steve Reardon, who lays cable at the bottom of the ocean. When one goes out in an underwater tank in the ocean near Hawaii, Steve's boss wants him to solve the problem.
Steve is good, but he also plays fast and loose with time. He is too busy reading a pulp adventure story, "The Son of Neptune," written by his girlfriend, Edith O'Neill, and based on him.
Once he repairs the cable, he hits his boss up for a bonus and two weeks vacation so that he and Edith can be married. Unfortunately, Steve is late for a date with Edith, and they quarrel. He walks out and becomes incredibly drunk.
The next morning he wakes up next to the bar's piano player, Eddie (Norman Foster). He finds out that Eddie has studied engineering. Steve offers to help him get work in the field and mentor him.
Eddie becomes a success. Steve, deciding enough time has gone by for Edith to miss him, buys her a ring and goes to her apartment.
However, she has a new series of pulp storiez, based on a heavyweight boxing champion.
Time for another brawl, and this time, Steve is arrested. He and Edith make a deal - if their romance can last for six months, Steve agrees he will work at the home office so they won't have to be separated.
This is an insane, loud comedy that doesn't seem to go anywhere. Donlevy talks a mile a minute. It's short, fast-moving, and kind of an empty romance. Hattie McDaniel plays Edith's maid, and she's great.
Not much to recommend it.
Brian Donlevy plays expert cable layer Steve Reardon, who lays cable at the bottom of the ocean. When one goes out in an underwater tank in the ocean near Hawaii, Steve's boss wants him to solve the problem.
Steve is good, but he also plays fast and loose with time. He is too busy reading a pulp adventure story, "The Son of Neptune," written by his girlfriend, Edith O'Neill, and based on him.
Once he repairs the cable, he hits his boss up for a bonus and two weeks vacation so that he and Edith can be married. Unfortunately, Steve is late for a date with Edith, and they quarrel. He walks out and becomes incredibly drunk.
The next morning he wakes up next to the bar's piano player, Eddie (Norman Foster). He finds out that Eddie has studied engineering. Steve offers to help him get work in the field and mentor him.
Eddie becomes a success. Steve, deciding enough time has gone by for Edith to miss him, buys her a ring and goes to her apartment.
However, she has a new series of pulp storiez, based on a heavyweight boxing champion.
Time for another brawl, and this time, Steve is arrested. He and Edith make a deal - if their romance can last for six months, Steve agrees he will work at the home office so they won't have to be separated.
This is an insane, loud comedy that doesn't seem to go anywhere. Donlevy talks a mile a minute. It's short, fast-moving, and kind of an empty romance. Hattie McDaniel plays Edith's maid, and she's great.
Not much to recommend it.