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Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon

Chris Hunter is a sly newsreel reporter. While in Shanghai doing reports on the Chinese-Japanese war, he meets pilot Alma Harding. At first she doesn't trust him, but by a trick he manages to get her ...( read more  read more... )hired as his assistant. During an adventurous expedition through the jungles of South America he manages to change her view of him.

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Directed by: Jack Conway

Release Date: September 16, 1938

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  • rickrudge
    June 9, 2009
    rickrudge
    Too Hot to Handle (1938)

    Back in the days before television, people got their news from the newspaper or from newsreels that were shown inside the movie theaters. Studios were very competitive with each other over the scoops and images that they could get.

    Chris Hunter (Clark ...( read more)Gable) wasn't above staging a shot, if the actual news wasn't exciting enough. Chris and his rival, Bill Dennis (Walter Pidgeon) are covering the Japanese invasion of China when he meets an aviatrix, Alma Harding (Myrna Loy). Chris tries to make Alma the exciting story. Naturally, this all blows up in his face.

    Part of it is getting a swell story, but the other part of it was that Chris was falling for Alma. He follows her in a search for her missing brother in the Amazon jungles. Chris's partner and soundman is José Estanza (Leo Carrillo) who played Pancho in the TV series, The Cisco Kid.

    I know, it's standard romantic comedy fare, but not a total waste of your time.

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