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 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, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Clark Gable - Chris Hunter
- Walter Pidgeon - Bill Dennis
- Leo Carrillo - Joselito
- Johnny Hines - Parson
- Betty Ross Clarke - Mrs. Harding
- Gregory Gaye - Popoff
- Willie Fung - Willie
- Ralph Bushman - Newsreel Man
- Robert Emmett Keane - Foreign Editor
- Virginia Weidler - Hulda Harding
- Cyril Ring - Cameraman
- Walter Miller - Flyer
- James Flavin - Young Reporter
- Lane Chandler - Cameraman
- Myrna Loy - Alma Harding
- Walter Connolly - Gabby MacArthur
- Leo Carrillo - Hunter's assistant
- Marjorie Main - Miss Wayne
- Henry Kolker - Pearly Todd
- Al Shean - Gumpert
- Patsy O'Connor - "Fake" Hulda Harding
- Nell Craig - Todd's Secretary
- Eddie Parker - Coast Guard Attendant
- Josephine Whittell - "Fake" Mrs. Harding
- Aileen Pringle - Mrs. MacArthur
- Richard Loo - Charlie
- Frank Faylen - Assistant Dubber
- Director(s):
- Jack Conway
- Writer(s):
- John Lee Mahin, Len Hammond, Laurence Stallings
- Producer(s):
- Lawrence Weingarten
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