in brooklyn a century ago and the rivalry between chuck connors and steve brodie and their compete volunteer fire brigade lead to brodie famous bet that he can jump off the brooklyn bridge . this be a story which will be familiar to a lot of people through a bug bunny spoof and bowery bug from 1949. this generally very enjoyable film would probably be more widely available if it be not for the notorious and unsettling scene involve some chinese tenement dweller a time capsule of antediluvian racial attitude and give the film a great deal of historical interest and in my view .