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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Clark Gable | ... | Chris Hunter | |
| Myrna Loy | ... | Alma Harding | |
| Walter Pidgeon | ... | Bill Dennis | |
| Walter Connolly | ... | 'Gabby' MacArthur | |
| Leo Carrillo | ... | Joselito | |
| Johnny Hines | ... | Parsons | |
| Virginia Weidler | ... | Hulda | |
| Betty Ross Clarke | ... | Mrs. Harding | |
| Henry Kolker | ... | 'Pearly' Todd | |
| Marjorie Main | ... | Miss Wayne | |
| Gregory Gaye | ... | 'Popoff' | |
| Al Shean | ... | Gumpert | |
| Willie Fung | ... | Willie | |
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Lillie Mui | ... | 'Tootsie' |
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Patsy O'Connor | ... | 'Fake' Hulda |
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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 hired as his assistant. During an adventurous expedition through the jungles of South America he manages to change her view of him. Written by Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
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USARelease Date:
16 September 1938 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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$1,564,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)Color:
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1.37 : 1
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Alma Harding: I am coming with you.
Christopher 'Chris' Hunter: What!
Alma Harding: Yes, you and I are going into your Mr. Gabby MacArthur, and he's going to hear a few things from me.
Christopher 'Chris' Hunter: Well, now, let's
Christopher 'Chris' Hunter: Well, listen now, I'm not going to hide behind a woman's skirt.
Alma Harding: Yes, you are. Ever since you dragged me from that crack up, I've been on borrowed time. You're not going to lose your ...
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(1887) (uncredited)
Written by Juventino Rosas
Background music on the test film shown to natives
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After Marion Davies left Warners in 1937, she was offered the role of Alma Harding, a chance to return to MGM (where she had been 1924-34) and a chance to work with Clark Gable for a third time, but William Randolph Hearst disliked the story line about newsreels and fake news. See more »Goofs
When Chris is screening the raw footage of the plane crash, it is already completely edited with multiple camera angles and shot with various lenses, even though only one camera was supposedly used to film it, and the footage is supposed to be raw. See more »Quotes
Christopher 'Chris' Hunter: You know, I almost wish you were coming with me - not only because I'm grateful for being around you but because I'd get to show Gabby over just what made me go haywire.Alma Harding: I am coming with you.
Christopher 'Chris' Hunter: What!
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Christopher 'Chris' Hunter: Well, now, let's
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Crazy Credits
We wish to thank Her Majesty's Governor of Netherlands Guiana for permitting our expedition to enter the jungles of the Tottiekampu country. Our thanks also to Chief Moi of the Matawais tribe for allowing us to record for the first time the sights and sounds of the Djuka Fire Dance Ritual. See more »Alternate Versions
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I happen to be a big fan of old newsreels. From the dawn of sound films until around the mid-60s the newsreel was the source for visual news coverage. After that television and then cable television took over. I look at the educational channels when they have old 30s and 40s newsreels running.
The cameramen played by Clark Gable and Walter Pidgeon are not too different from the print reporter characters that are a staple character in Hollywood films. These two have a friendly rivalry trying to scoop each other for news. The rivalry gets a little intense when aviatrix Alma Harding (Amelia Earhart) played by Myrna Loy gets ensnared in the rivalry and becomes the focus of their hormones.
The writing is sparkling with zingers and the direction is crisp. The plot moves from one madcap situation to the next. Among the supporting cast I should single out Walter Connolly and Henry Kolker as the rival bosses of Gable and Pidgeon who are driven to their respective wits end by the antics of their cameramen.
I defy anyone to watch this film and not split a gut laughing.