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123 reviews
Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert

Sony Pictures, 1994

A Film That Does Not Age
I must be the only person who likes movies in the wide, wide world who had never seen this screw-ball comedy that was released in 1934 at the height of the Great Depression. Its stars, Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable, won Oscars for Best Actress and Best Actor. Its director Frank Capra took home Best Director. Colbert as Ellie Anderson, the spoiled rich girl with the pencil eyebrows, is ...

San Francisco [VHS]

50 reviews
Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald

MGM (Video & DVD), 1992

Best
They made movies then, ! But then they had Quality actors {actresses} and good wriers !!!

It Started in Naples [VHS]

29 reviews
Clark Gable, Sophia Loren

Paramount, 1991

Ah Naples!
I am of Italian heritage. My mom was born in Naples and I have been to Naples and Capri. This movie really gives you the flavor of Naples and its beautiful scenery and the true feel of Italians and their passion and expression. Sophia Loren is absolutely gorgeous and has tremendous presence on the screen and the little boy is so funny when he talks English with his cute Italian accent. I ...

Strange Cargo (1940) [VHS]

14 reviews
Clark Gable, Joan Crawford

MGM (Warner), 1998

Get swept away with Joan and Clark Gable!!
In this movie there was both a rare sense of innocence and sensuality that made Joan's part even more multi-faceted! Joan plays Joan in this 1940 MGM classic, staring with her number one leading man, Clark Gable. Much of this masterpiece is shot on a boat and outside and Joan looks all the more stunning and natural! I've added a couple pictures here for you! BTW, "Strange Cargo" will be shown on ...

Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) [VHS]

55 reviews
Charles Laughton, Clark Gable

MGM (Video & DVD), 1994

Good Old Fashioned Adventure Movie
I hate adventure movies and got this when I only had four minutes to pick something off the shelves of the public library. I watched two of them before I got down to this--not really expecting to see it through. So, imagine my surprise when I, not only sat through the whole thing, but actually enjoyed it. It's a great story---who cares if it's not historically accurate--we can Google for that. ...

Hucksters [VHS]

7 reviews
Clark Gable, Deborah Kerr

MGM (Warner), 1998

Absorbing drama
"The Hucksters" is a refreshingly adult drama with themes that resonate even today. Clark Gable plays an advertising agent (a "huckster") who is basically a decent man, but who finds himself increasingly compromising his principles in order to satisfy a despotic soap magnate played by Sydney Greenstreet, who obviously relishes in playing such a despicable, larger than life character. As part of ...

Gone with the Wind [VHS]

814 reviews
Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh

MGM (Video & DVD), 1998

Amazing
I have the VHS version so was reluctant to buy the Blu-Ray version but did it anyway. Camparing the two was easy as the Blu-Ray version is so much better. The images are really much sharper and the color is more natural looking. But like all new products read views before buying Blu-Ray DVD's as some I have purchased are even worse than the original. GWTW is not one of them...

Somewhere I'll Find You [VHS]

3 reviews
Clark Gable, Lana Turner

MGM (Warner), 1998

The Girl Really IS Hot....
I'd be lying if I said I bought this movie just because I'm a big Clark Gable fan as Lana Turner really is as fantastic as any actress Gable had worked with. The story is compelling and at times feels forced, but Gable carries himself perfectly as an at times despicable character, but as always the heart of gold shines through. Powerful speech to end the movie tells me all I need to know about ...

Night Nurse (1931) [VHS]

14 reviews
Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon

MGM (Warner), 1998

it's enough to make her want to burn the place down
Night Nurse is a gripping, taut drama starring the great Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Blondell and a rather young Clark Gable. The convincing acting always held my attention and the plot moves along at a good pace. The action begins when Lora Hart (Barbara Stanwyck) gets a job as a nurse trainee at a hospital--after she shows a little bit of her leg to Dr. Arthur Bell (Charles Winninger), that is. ...

Red Dust [VHS]

20 reviews
Clark Gable, Jean Harlow

MGM (Warner), 1994

"I once knew a man who made a joke like that. He was run over by a truck."
Imagine the lush heat of the jungle and the brutish, sex-starved men that live there. All that heat is present in Red Dust, the story of the manager of a rubber plantation (Clark Gable) and his lust for a prostitute (Jean Harlow) and a society wife (Mary Astor). This is heady stuff for the early 30s, but thankfully plenty passed by the lax censorship of the pre-code era. We've got it all with ...

Saratoga [VHS]

8 reviews
Clark Gable, Jean Harlow

MGM (Warner), 1998

For Harlow
Jean Harlow was the original blonde bombshell, and unlike Marilyn Monroe who came after her and tried to imitate her, Jean really could ACT, and she really had "IT", the star-quality thingy aura, while Marilyn just looked pretty on screen without being as witty or ingenious as Harlow. Saratoga was, as everyone knows, her last film, and you can totally see the sickness in her, she looks weary and ...

Idiot's Delight [VHS]

11 reviews
Norma Shearer, Clark Gable

Mgm Entertainment, 1991

Gable does it again
I think this is another one of Gables funniest performances.Ive seen it a few times and enjoyed it everytime.It definetly is a must see for any Gable fan or anyone who hasnt seen much of Gable. True that the movie may not be very artistic but FAST TALKING, LIGHT HEARTED,CONFIDENT,FRIENDLY GABLE always does it for me, especially when we live in a time where movies have gotten very ''artistic" but ...

Too Hot to Handle (1938) [VHS]

8 reviews
Clark Gable, Myrna Loy

MGM (Video & DVD), 1998

A Good darn picture
Too Hot To Handle got the wonderfull thing to be a mix of comedy,romance,and adventure.The director Jack Conway who had great sucess such has "libeled lady"and later "love crazy"made a good darn picture. Clark Gable,Mirna Loy and Walter Conely are at the top. A satiric film sometimes againts the newspaper. The best scene I think is the fake shoting of the chinese army with a toy of a plane and ...

Teacher's Pet [VHS]

41 reviews
Clark Gable, Doris Day

Paramount, 1998

Great Old Movies
If you love to curl up and watch old movies, tune in to this. I have always been a Doris Day fan. Combine her with Clark Gable (that's when men were men) and how much better could it get? This is when they made movies you knew you could sit down and watch with the family. I wish Hollywood would realize we're not all after R-rated material in our movies.

Manhattan Melodrama [VHS]

12 reviews
Clark Gable, William Powell

MGM (Warner), 1994

1930's Star Wattage on High
"I have ideas too, even though they may be old and discarded. Oh I know they may be outdated, like oil lamps and horse cars, but they're mine and I'm stuck with them." -- Loy to Gable after seeing the honest side of life with Powell. This glossy, early 1930's melodrama is in a class by itself as topnotch entertainment. Buoyed by star power and Arthur Caesar's Oscar winning story, this ...

Strange Cargo (1940) [VHS]

They Met in Bombay [VHS]

3 reviews
Clark Gable, Rosalind Russell

MGM (Video & DVD), 1998

Comedy, Theivery, and War
They Met in Bombay is a film about two thieves, one of which is amateurish but successful (Rosalind Russell) and one who takes his time and replaces jewels with fakes to buy himself time (Clark Gable). The two stumble upon each other when they both plan to steal the same piece and join up when things do not go as well as they had planned. They escape on a Chinese boat heading toward Hong Kong ...

Adventure (1945) [VHS]

6 reviews
Clark Gable, Greer Garson

MGM (Warner), 1998

They Just didn't get it
...and neither did Leonard Maltin. This movie is better with each passing year... I think it is a pre-noir, pre-"reality" - psychological drama of intense beauty. Clark Gable stars as a staunchly confirmed sea dog, crew leader (called a bos'n) and womanizer who is totally unprepared to meet Greer Garson's character, who forever changes his vision of what is possible in finding love with a woman. ...

Across the Wide Missouri [VHS]

4 reviews
Clark Gable, Ricardo Montalban

MGM/UA Home Video, 1998

Outstanding Frontier Adventure film
Clark Gable is excellent as a mountain man who leads a company of mountain men and trappers into the Blackfoot Indian Nation to trap beaver. It has humor, drama, action, and suspense. The "Run For Your Life" scene where Gable is given a choice by the Indians to either run or be killed is classic. Ricardo Montalban is also in fine form as the Blackfoot Indian War Chief who hates the intrusion ...

Strange Interlude [VHS]

4 reviews
Norma Shearer, Clark Gable

MGM (Warner), 1992

Innovative Film
I am not a big movie buff, but purchased this film because I am a fan of silent film star Henry B. Walthall. Walthall is only in the film for the first seven minutes and then his character dies. Rather than losing interest in the film, however, I kept watching and found it very enjoyable. It is a very innovative film, based on the Eugene O'Neill play, that includes thoughts of the characters ...

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