Men, power, women and manpower. Set in a working-class milieu, the story revolves around men working on high voltage electric lines for Pacific Power and Light Company, and the excitement, through Raoul Walsh's fast, tough direction, comes almost exclusively from watching the Men at Work. Of course it helps that two of the men are Edward G. Robinson and George Raft, and that the suppressed high voltage tension between them is augmented by Marlene Dietrich, femme fatale turned hausfrau, married to Robinson but more attracted to his freewheeling friend. Consistently fine acting performances from the three leads, with Dietrich almost toying with her own legend, plus the always acerbic Eve Arden as Dietrich's B-Girl comrade.