Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe are sandhogs working on a tunnel from Brooklyn to Manhattan. McLaglen is the crew leader, and they battle a lot, but their hatred is saved for Charles Bickford, who's the lead sandhog of the crew tunneling from Manhattan.
The first fifteen minutes of this movie is reserved for lots of explication about why these men work under several atmospheres of air pressure, and the threats that poses. Fortunately, newspaperwoman Florence Rice is on hand to explain it to, and for Lowe to romance. Marjorie Rambeau plays the McLaglen's woman; she runs the beer hall the Brooklyn crew drinks in, and into which Bickford stalks occasionally to rile everyone up.
Hal Mohr and L. W. O'Connell are the cameramen who shoot the working men down under with some dramatic lighting, and director Raoul Walsh (with some uncredited help from Irving Cummings) brings out the very real chemistry between the frequent co-stars, as well as some highly dramatic sequences. Fox was coming out of a period when they seemed to have no writing department, but this muscular tale of tough men is a solid and entertaining movie.
The first fifteen minutes of this movie is reserved for lots of explication about why these men work under several atmospheres of air pressure, and the threats that poses. Fortunately, newspaperwoman Florence Rice is on hand to explain it to, and for Lowe to romance. Marjorie Rambeau plays the McLaglen's woman; she runs the beer hall the Brooklyn crew drinks in, and into which Bickford stalks occasionally to rile everyone up.
Hal Mohr and L. W. O'Connell are the cameramen who shoot the working men down under with some dramatic lighting, and director Raoul Walsh (with some uncredited help from Irving Cummings) brings out the very real chemistry between the frequent co-stars, as well as some highly dramatic sequences. Fox was coming out of a period when they seemed to have no writing department, but this muscular tale of tough men is a solid and entertaining movie.