From Chinese battlefields to home offices in Manhattan, to Amazonian tribal lands, Clark Gable and Walter Pidgeon are cameramen working for competing newsreel organizations. When Myrna Loy crash lands in the middle of one of their shoots, all Gable sees is a great story .... at first. When he and Pidgeon learn that she is trying to put together enough money to find and rescue her missing brother, lost somewhere in South America, they forge a truce.
Pidgeon is definitely a third wheel in this movie, which is probably why his part wasn't taken by Spencer Tracy. Here's MGM making a 'safe' movie, sure to please at the box office, with Walter Connolly, Leo Carillo, Johnny Hines, Marjorie Main, and Al Shean working hard to offer the MGM gloss. Clearly Mayer and associates were worried after the previous year's debacle of PARNELL and wanted to give the audiences what they knew they wanted. Unfortunately, it didn't quite work, and the movie lost money. Gable is a trifle too cavalier about the ladies for my taste, but on the plus side, the big gags, devised, it is claimed, by an uncredited Buster Keaton, are pretty good.
Pidgeon is definitely a third wheel in this movie, which is probably why his part wasn't taken by Spencer Tracy. Here's MGM making a 'safe' movie, sure to please at the box office, with Walter Connolly, Leo Carillo, Johnny Hines, Marjorie Main, and Al Shean working hard to offer the MGM gloss. Clearly Mayer and associates were worried after the previous year's debacle of PARNELL and wanted to give the audiences what they knew they wanted. Unfortunately, it didn't quite work, and the movie lost money. Gable is a trifle too cavalier about the ladies for my taste, but on the plus side, the big gags, devised, it is claimed, by an uncredited Buster Keaton, are pretty good.