Blondy and Swede are gruff best friends who build skyscrapers. Blondy gets sweet on a girl he saves from a falling beam, Sally, but when he is injured in an accident and temporarily crippled, he rejects her. Swede tries every desperate measure to get Blondy to fight back, to try to walk, even masquerading as stealing Sally away from him.
Practical Effects
Genuine high-altitude construction footage that'll dizzy you.
Acting
Alan Hale's chaotic devotion as Swede steals every scene.
Director
Howard Higgin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
William Boyd later became Hopalong Cassidy, making this his pre-cowboy avatar as a guy who can't walk.
This is early 'steeplejack cinema'—a brief 1920s genre romanticizing ironworkers before the Depression made that nostalgia impossible.
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