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Slim (Warner) is a story of electric linemen, the high-wire workers employed in constructing and repairing the country's power lines. With minimum resort to dramatic contrivance, it presents certain interlocking episodes in the lives of Linemen Red Blayd (Pat O'Brien) and Slim (Henry Fonda). It begins when Slim, a farm boy fascinated by the hazardous function of the linemen putting up a transmission tower, asks for a job; it ends, after Red falls to his death in a high-wire accident, with Slim climbing a tower in a blizzard to resume the repair job thus...
Slim got his job because a butter-fingered lineman dropped a condenser and got fired. Red Blayd liked him. Red was independent as a king. He was the most respected man on that power job. He could have been a construction boss, but preferred a footloose life, wandering from one line job to another, working until he had a roll and then living high until he had to go to work again. First Slim was Red's "grunt" (groundman). Slim sent up tools as needed on the hand line, tossed up bolts which Red caught with the nonchalant magnificence...
When he gets his start Slim is only a kid "grunt" (fetch & carrier for the linemen). He wins the respect of his Boss and the protection and affection of Red Blayd, crack lineman, known the country over as an almost legendary figure. Their first job finished, Red takes the Kid along to Chicago where, with the help of Cally and Grace and a big roll, he gives Slim the time of his young life. Then they go on to a new job of rearing towers and stringing wires over the Rocky Mountains, winding up in San Francisco...
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