Some sharp eyed previous reviewer caught the same thing I did, that Steel Against The Sky is a remake of the Cagney/O'Brien classic The Irish In Us. Warner Brothers more than most recycled a lot of their most other studios their previous film.
The action shifts from the slums of The Lower East Side of New York across the country to the Pacific coast where a bridge that looks a lot like the unfinished Golden Gate is going up. The Evans family are a family of bridge builders specializing in the very highest points of those suspension bridges being constructed. Edward Ellis who was injured on the job brought his three sons up in the same trade. The boys are Lloyd Nolan who is a foreman, amiable lunkhead Edward Brophy, and Craig Stevens who is looking for an easier and softer way to make a living.
Both Nolan and Stevens fall for the big boss Gene Lockhart's daughter Alexis Smith and upon that rests the rest of the story.
I have to say that Warner Brothers edited the footage of the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge well into the plot. The concern is that the construction of the bridge will be delayed and it's building is part of our national defense program. The fact that Steel Against The Sky was released a week after Pearl Harbor must have made the ticket buying public a bit apprehensive at so timely a remark.
Probably the most important thing to come out of Steel Against The Sky was the marriage of Alexis Smith and Craig Stevens in real life.
Not a bad film from Warner Brothers B picture unit.
The action shifts from the slums of The Lower East Side of New York across the country to the Pacific coast where a bridge that looks a lot like the unfinished Golden Gate is going up. The Evans family are a family of bridge builders specializing in the very highest points of those suspension bridges being constructed. Edward Ellis who was injured on the job brought his three sons up in the same trade. The boys are Lloyd Nolan who is a foreman, amiable lunkhead Edward Brophy, and Craig Stevens who is looking for an easier and softer way to make a living.
Both Nolan and Stevens fall for the big boss Gene Lockhart's daughter Alexis Smith and upon that rests the rest of the story.
I have to say that Warner Brothers edited the footage of the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge well into the plot. The concern is that the construction of the bridge will be delayed and it's building is part of our national defense program. The fact that Steel Against The Sky was released a week after Pearl Harbor must have made the ticket buying public a bit apprehensive at so timely a remark.
Probably the most important thing to come out of Steel Against The Sky was the marriage of Alexis Smith and Craig Stevens in real life.
Not a bad film from Warner Brothers B picture unit.