Interesting to see this particular double feature – and the stars of the day. About a decade before this film – Steel City – was made, we had a classic which centred on the Coal Mining Industry ‘ How Green Was My Valley’ which told of family life, love, happiness and tragedy in one of those pit villages in the Welsh mountains – although it was filmed in Hollywood.

‘Steel Town’ was filmed in Technicolor and had a more dramatic and different storyline in some ways although the similarity was it’s link to another major industry – Steel – this time in America

Steel Town is a nice B film from Universal studios .

The film centres on Steel Works with all the dangers therein at that time.

In it John Lund plays the son of the company owner, who has not forgotten his roots and because of this he sends his son to work there starting at the bottom.

John Lund is sent to lodge with an old friend from his father’s early days – William Harrigan and his wife Eileen Crowe. Also at the house is Ann Sheridan their daughter and the romantic lead.

James Best is cast as a young steel factory worker whose dad was killed at the mill in an accident. He’s a reminder of what can go wrong.

John Lund has a rival for Ann Sheridan in Howard Duff another worker at the steel plant.

The scene is set for an interesting situation

In – Flesh and Fury

Tony Curtis and the very pretty Mona Freeman ABOVE

Tony Curtis plays a deaf boxer who Jan Sterling takes an interest in. However he does have a kindly manager Wallace Ford, but she wants him to hit the big time as soon as possible with all the financial advantages that gives, even if it means facing dirty fighters who will cripple him.

When Mona Freeman turns up to interview Tony Curtis for her magazine, she takes a more sympathetic view of the him because her own father had also been deaf.

Universal was putting Tony Curtis into a lot of films at that time.

In real life Jan Sterling was brought up at the upper end of New York society, travelled the world as a child, was instructed by private tutors, and by the time she hit Broadway in the late 1930s, playing aristocratic English women.

A role in the touring company of BORN YESTERDAY brought her to Hollywood’s attention.

Jan Sterling had been married to John Merivale from 1941 until 1948, who later lived with Vivien Leigh from 1958 until her death in 1967,

In 1986 he married his long-time friend and actress Dinah Sheridan