This 6th and last collaboration of Clark Gable and Myrna Loy, with Walter Pidgeon, Leo Carrillo, and Walter Connolly playing the main supporting characters, is a fast moving adventurous drama and sometimes comedy, that features Gable and Pidgeon as newsreel photographers for rival news services companies. They usually were assigned the same stories to report on. On assignment in Shanghai during a bombing raid by Japanese, they aren't above faking a bomb attack or manufacturing a story about a supposed cholera outbreak. Gable is especially funny here. They also aren't above stealing each other's film footage!
Meanwhile Myrna Loy comes into the picture as a thinly disguised version of Amelia Erhardt, who had been in the news recently as having disappeared while on her round the world flight. While resting up in Manila, Myrna was tapped to fly cholera serum to Shanghai, as requested by her old friend, as played by Pidgeon(quite a coincidence!). Unfortunately, when she lands in the dark, she crashes into Gable's stationwagon, which sets her plane on fire. Gable rescues her and the serum. Thus, she considers him a hero. Nevermind that his misplaced vehicle caused the crash! This sets the stage for a competition between Gable and Pidgeon for Myrna's romantic attention, that lasts the remainder of the film.
Now that her ambition to be the first woman to fly around the world apparently has been thwarted, her driving ambition is to try to find her brother, who disappeared while flying over the Amazon, not knowing if he's dead or alive. Thus, the 'boys' try to help her achieve that goal. Gable somehow manages to acquire enough cash for her to acquire a plane, but disguises his role in giving her the money. Gable, along with his aid Jose(Leo Carrillo) get to somewhere in the Amazon separately from Myrna, as does Pidgeon. Serendipitously, they all find each other. Myrna plus Pidgeon take off in her plane, to find a village said to harbor a white man. Meanwhile, Gable and Jose take a canoe in the same direction. The latter find the village first, staying on the periphery at first. They don't seem surprised that the natives are Africans, rather than the expected Native Americans. Apparently, they are actually one of the 'maroon' tribes of the decedents of escaped slaves who ran into the unexplored interior of Surinam. The natives are dancing around a fire, with one occasionally dancing into the fire. They bring a sick white man out on a stretcher, and the medicine man sprinkles some ashes over his body before returning him to a hut. That evening, they are still dancing around a still bigger fire. They again bring forth the white man, nearly unconscious, and appear to be getting ready to throw him into the fire. Now, things start to get bizarre. Gable decides he will distract them with some powerful 'magic'. Next we see a large picture of a film of various violent happenings projected on what? For a screen. Where did he get the projector and electricity for this?? Next, Gable somehow makes a cloud of smoke at the village entrance, with himself emerging. After a while, the chief decides that his magic is stronger than the medicine man's and makes him the new medicine man. Gable, as well as Jose, don the medicine man's chicken costume, their head being covered by a chicken head. They then carry the nearly dead white man to their canoe, but their canoe is gone. Thus, they bring him back to the village. Soon, they spot Myrna's plane overhead. Soon, Myrna and Pidgeon saunter into the village, find Myrna's brother, and take some newsreel. Footage. Gable and Jose don't reveal themselves. Rather, Gable takes Pidgeon's camera, and Pidgeon is afraid to fight for it. Eventually, Myrna and Pidgeon carry her brother to the plane. About this time, the chief changes his mind and declares that the white men medicine men are evil. Thus, Gable and Jose, still costumed, run for their lives, to a canoe and paddle away, toward the seaplane. They try to get on board, but Pidgeon shoots at them, and they let go. Now, they are in a very bad situation.
When Myrna and Pidgeon arrive in NYC, they are shocked to find that a newsreel of their rescue has already been released. They assume it must have been Gable?? Hence, Myrna calls Gable a hero and goes looking for him, in a very weak ending.
Gable and Walter Connolly supply the majority of the humor. ..........I think the title, which refers to Myrna, was inappropriate, much better applied to the '60 film of the same title, starring Jane Mansfield, and to the TV series of the same title. To me, it implies that the modest Myrna was a sexpot. I would have opted for something like "The adventures of a lady flier". ........... See a decent copy for free at YouTube.
Meanwhile Myrna Loy comes into the picture as a thinly disguised version of Amelia Erhardt, who had been in the news recently as having disappeared while on her round the world flight. While resting up in Manila, Myrna was tapped to fly cholera serum to Shanghai, as requested by her old friend, as played by Pidgeon(quite a coincidence!). Unfortunately, when she lands in the dark, she crashes into Gable's stationwagon, which sets her plane on fire. Gable rescues her and the serum. Thus, she considers him a hero. Nevermind that his misplaced vehicle caused the crash! This sets the stage for a competition between Gable and Pidgeon for Myrna's romantic attention, that lasts the remainder of the film.
Now that her ambition to be the first woman to fly around the world apparently has been thwarted, her driving ambition is to try to find her brother, who disappeared while flying over the Amazon, not knowing if he's dead or alive. Thus, the 'boys' try to help her achieve that goal. Gable somehow manages to acquire enough cash for her to acquire a plane, but disguises his role in giving her the money. Gable, along with his aid Jose(Leo Carrillo) get to somewhere in the Amazon separately from Myrna, as does Pidgeon. Serendipitously, they all find each other. Myrna plus Pidgeon take off in her plane, to find a village said to harbor a white man. Meanwhile, Gable and Jose take a canoe in the same direction. The latter find the village first, staying on the periphery at first. They don't seem surprised that the natives are Africans, rather than the expected Native Americans. Apparently, they are actually one of the 'maroon' tribes of the decedents of escaped slaves who ran into the unexplored interior of Surinam. The natives are dancing around a fire, with one occasionally dancing into the fire. They bring a sick white man out on a stretcher, and the medicine man sprinkles some ashes over his body before returning him to a hut. That evening, they are still dancing around a still bigger fire. They again bring forth the white man, nearly unconscious, and appear to be getting ready to throw him into the fire. Now, things start to get bizarre. Gable decides he will distract them with some powerful 'magic'. Next we see a large picture of a film of various violent happenings projected on what? For a screen. Where did he get the projector and electricity for this?? Next, Gable somehow makes a cloud of smoke at the village entrance, with himself emerging. After a while, the chief decides that his magic is stronger than the medicine man's and makes him the new medicine man. Gable, as well as Jose, don the medicine man's chicken costume, their head being covered by a chicken head. They then carry the nearly dead white man to their canoe, but their canoe is gone. Thus, they bring him back to the village. Soon, they spot Myrna's plane overhead. Soon, Myrna and Pidgeon saunter into the village, find Myrna's brother, and take some newsreel. Footage. Gable and Jose don't reveal themselves. Rather, Gable takes Pidgeon's camera, and Pidgeon is afraid to fight for it. Eventually, Myrna and Pidgeon carry her brother to the plane. About this time, the chief changes his mind and declares that the white men medicine men are evil. Thus, Gable and Jose, still costumed, run for their lives, to a canoe and paddle away, toward the seaplane. They try to get on board, but Pidgeon shoots at them, and they let go. Now, they are in a very bad situation.
When Myrna and Pidgeon arrive in NYC, they are shocked to find that a newsreel of their rescue has already been released. They assume it must have been Gable?? Hence, Myrna calls Gable a hero and goes looking for him, in a very weak ending.
Gable and Walter Connolly supply the majority of the humor. ..........I think the title, which refers to Myrna, was inappropriate, much better applied to the '60 film of the same title, starring Jane Mansfield, and to the TV series of the same title. To me, it implies that the modest Myrna was a sexpot. I would have opted for something like "The adventures of a lady flier". ........... See a decent copy for free at YouTube.