Slim

A solid if unremarkable action melodrama that teams O'Brien and Fonda as rough-and-tumble power company employees who work the high-tension power lines. The film opens as Fonda, a young farmboy, spots a crew of men working on the power lines near his father's farm. Enthralled by the dangerous work and anxious to leave the rural life behind him, Fonda asks the crew's hard-boiled boss, O'Brien, for a job. O'Brien likes Fonda's manner and decides to give the kid a try. After some intensive training in the repair and maintenance of the dangerous high-voltage power lines, Fonda is assigned his first job. Swallowing his fears, the novice climbs up the steel tower and per...