High Tension (1936 film)

High Tension is a 1936 American comedy drama film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Brian Donlevy, Glenda Farrell, and Norman Foster.

After repairing the cable he was sent to fix, Steve returns to San Francisco and asks his boss Willard Stone for a $1000 bonus and two weeks' vacation so that he can marry Edith.

When he tells Edith about the transfer and reveals that he agreed to stay in Hawaii for one year, she angrily ends their engagement.

When Steve spontaneously sends a picture of himself with Brenda in a bathing suit to Edith, she is furious and goes to Hawaii to return his engagement ring in person.

Afterwards, Brenda and Eddie embrace, and a telegraph arrives from the head office saying that if Steve marries Edith, he will get a five-year contract and she will have permission to travel with him to get firsthand material for her stories.

Here she is aided and abetted by Brian Donlevy, the man with the profile, who spends part of his time asking her to marry him and, paradoxically, running out on her after she consents.

For instance, the interlude in which Mr. Donlevy descends to the floor of the Pacific to rescue Norman Foster, who becomes entangled in a movement of coral reef while mending the Honolulu—San Francisco cable.