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Clark Gable is my current actor of all time, so the DVD boxed state, CLARK GABLE: THE SIGNATURE COLLECTION, from Warner Home Video is destined to be an often-played popular. Gable made his first movie in 1931 and his last in 1961; this boxed area goes from 1933-1953. Included are six movie treasures: DANCING LADY (1933), CHINA SEAS (1935), WIFE VS. SECRETARY and SAN FRANCISCO (both 1936), Recount TOWN (1940), and MOGAMBO (1953) .

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DANCING LADY is a Joan Crawford vehicle, with a young Clark Gable and Franchot Tone as the men she chooses between. We are in the Depression era Manhattan indicate business world, with Gable as a play director and Tone a millionaire playboy financing the note. Fred Astaire makes his film debut as himself, and Nelson Eddy and The Three Stooges have cameo roles. Bonuses are two Three Stooges shorts and a theatrical trailer.

CHINA SEAS is a “guilty pleasure” for director Tay Garnett. Gable plays a ship captain who does not know that his Hong Kong-to-Singapore voyage includes a gold shipment and Chinese coolies. The dream supporting cast includes Jean Harlow and Wallace Beery (re-united from DINNER AT EIGHT), a young Rosalind Russell, C. Aubrey Smith, and Lewis Stone. Bonuses are a color travelogue, a musical short, and a theatrical trailer.

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Clarence Brown’s WIFE VS. SECRETARY has Clark Gable married to Myrna Loy and boss to Jean Harlow. In a pleasing movie, each woman respects the other. This is at least the fourth movie that Gable and Harlow made together; they were very well-liked. A young James Stewart plays Harlow’s boyfriend and fifty years later collected fondly remembered a passionate kiss they shared. Titanic bonuses here are a musical short, a theatrical trailer, and an Oscar-winning “Crime Does Not Pay” short.

An all-time common of mine, SAN FRANCISCO has been remastered to fabricate its incomparable 1906 earthquake climax really something. But even without the bravura climax, we mild have Barbary Skim joint owner Gable competing with wealthy uptown Jack Holt for Jeanette MacDonald as a singer. As a generic priest, Spencer Tracy got the Oscar nomination that should have gone to Gable’s memorable Blackie Norton. The finale gives me goosebumps; curiously, one of the bonuses is an even more effective alternate ending. Other bonuses on this masterpiece are two Techicolor travelogues of the 1939 Savor Island World’s Aesthetic, and a 45 runt TNT documentary on Gable’s career and life. The first night you do this boxed position, begin with this documentary as an overview.

Another “guilty pleasure”, Sigh TOWN has a cast to die for-Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy again, this time as oil wildcatters, and Claudette Colbert and Hedy Lamarr as their women. The supporting cast of this Jack Conway-directed gem includes Frank Morgan, Lionel Atwill, and Chill Wills. Bonuses are a color cartoon, a B&W documentary short, and a theatrical trailer.

John Lee Mahin was one of Clark Gable’s common screenwriters. Mahin wrote Snort TOWN, eight years earlier wrote RED DUST (1932), and in 1953 did MOGAMBO, the Technicolor remake of RED DUST. I like RED DUST more because of Jean Harlow, but Gable is wonderfully cast as a enormous game hunter in Africa in John Ford’s MOGAMBO. Filmed on set with elegant color, this is a appreciate triangle between Broadway showgirl Ava Gardner (in the Harlow role) and married Grace Kelly (in the Mary Astor role) . Romance and adventure blend superbly in a superbly cast movie. The noted cinematographers are Robert Surtees and David Lean’s Freddie Young. The sole bonus here is a theatrical trailer.

I know, where are GONE WITH THE WIND and MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY? GWTW is literally its enjoy boxed spot now, and I added BOUNTY from obsolete videocassette. It is the greatest sea adventure of all time, impeccable cast, and superbly edited by Margaret Booth; I recommend it highly. As for IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT one year earlier, ghastly studio. I don’t maintain Warner Home Video has access to Columbia releases. But picky, picky! You bag six fantastic Clark Gable movie gems with a lot of bonuses, and you quiet contemplate more. Then go rent or grasp BOUNTY and NIGHT! And THE MISFITS (1961), for that matter. And also consume the unique 4-disk GWTW. Warners’ CLARK GABLE: THE SIGNATURE COLLECTION is impeccable and gets my highest DVD boxed situation rating.

For fans of ‘The King of Hollywood’ this space will no doubt seem device overdue. The titles chosen for this collection vary in appropriateness for inclusion, the comedy ‘Wife Vs. Secretary’ is only a so-so film that is made worthwhile only by the quality of the cast ie Gable, Myrna Loy and Jean Harlow. Also with the long-lost Harlow, Gable stars in the sillier than comical ‘China Seas’ in which he plays a ship’s captain.

Mogambo is a universally appreciated 1953 remake of an earlier Gable film (this time with Ava Gardner and Grace Kelly) in which he reprises his unusual role. A mammoth improvement of the new.

Dancing Lady is an underrated 1933 comedy classic with Joan Crawford in a change of straggle comedic turn that she pulls off marvellously. When Gable slaps her butt after granting her a favour and she wistfully thanks him; priceless!

All in all this a site of classics that should please Gable’s fans and those who impartial devour gargantuan vintage entertainment alike.
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