Too Hot to Handle (1938)

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Alternating effortlessly between comedy and suspense and back again, Too Hot to Handle stars Myrna Loy as a famous aviatrix and Clark Gable as an opportunistic newsreel photographer. Gable and rival shutterbug Walter Pidgeon agree to accompany Loy on her search for her missing brother, sensing a… More Alternating effortlessly between comedy and suspense and back again, Too Hot to Handle stars Myrna Loy as a famous aviatrix and Clark Gable as an opportunistic newsreel photographer. Gable and rival shutterbug Walter Pidgeon agree to accompany Loy on her search for her missing brother, sensing a good story and excellent photo op. Their odyssey takes them into the deepest jungles of the Amazon, where Gable's photographic prowess saves everyone's lives when hostile natives attack. Along the way, both Gable and Pidgeon fall in love with Loy. The classic opening sequence in Too Hot to Handle, in which the resourceful Gable fakes a bombing raid for the benefit of his cameras, was allegedly conceived by Buster Keaton, then a free-lance MGM gag man. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 1 hr. 46 min.
Directed By: Jack Conway
Written By: Laurence Stallings, John Lee Mahin
Genres: Drama, Action & Adventure, Classics, Comedy

In Theaters: Sep 16, 1938 Wide
On DVD: Nov 28, 1990
Studio: Warner Home Video

Critic Reviews

Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
This preposterously-plotted adventure reteam Gable and Myrna Loy, but it is not as good or entertaining as their previous feature, Test Pilot.
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
glittering star entertainment filmed like a serial with continuous cliffhanger scenes.

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Cast

            Clark Gable as Chris Hunter

            Myrna Loy as Alma Harding

            Walter Pidgeon as Bill Dennis

            Walter Connolly as Gabby MacArthur

            Leo Carrillo as Hunter's assistant

            Marjorie Main as Miss Wayne

            Johnny Hines as Parson

            Betty Ross Clarke as Mrs. Harding

            Henry Kolker as Pearly Todd

            Gregory Gaye as Popoff

            Al Shean as Gumpert

            Willie Fung as Willie

            Patsy O'Connor as "Fake" Hulda Harding

            Ralph Bushman as Newsreel Man

            Lane Chandler as Cameraman

            Nell Craig as Todd's Secretary

            Frank Faylen as Assistant Dubber

            James Flavin as Young Reporter

            Robert Emmett Keane as Foreign Editor

            Richard Loo as Charlie

            Walter Miller as Flyer

            Eddie Parker as Coast Guard Attendant

            Aileen Pringle as Mrs. MacArthur

            Cyril Ring as Cameraman

            Virginia Weidler as Hulda Harding

            Josephine Whittell as "Fake" Mrs. Harding
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