Directed by:
King VidorCinematography:
Joseph RuttenbergComposer:
Bronislau KaperCast:
Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Oskar Homolka, Felix Bressart, Eve Arden, Sig Ruman, Vladimir Sokoloff, Keye Luke, Sam Harris, Larry Steers, John Bleifer (more)Plots(1)
Soviet streetcar conductor Theodore (Hedy Lamarr) is as lovely as a Botticelli angel and as forbidding as a Moscow winter. American reporter McKinley B. "Mac" Thompson is as hunky and self-confident as Clark Gable (who happens to play the role). In pre-World War II Russia, the two share a comedy-and-action-filled adventure involving secret identities, a marriage of convenience, hairbreadth escapes and a thrilling tank-chase finale as Mac tries to help Theodore vamoose to the USA one step ahead of the corrupt secret police. Will Mac melt Theodore's icy heart? Will Theodore transfer her allegiance from Karl Marx to the Brooklyn Dodgers? Bet your last ruble the answer is da. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Clark Gable
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Teacher's Pet (1958)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Hedy Lamarr
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Strange Woman (1946)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
Come Live with Me (1941)
Oskar Homolka
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Ball of Fire (1941)
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
The Woman Alone (1936)
Felix Bressart
German Empire
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Eve Arden
USA
Best movies:
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Brillantine (1978)
Sig Ruman
German Empire
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
One, Two, Three (1961)
Vladimir Sokoloff
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Les Sept Mercenaires (1960)
Love Crazy (1941)
Scarlet Street (1945)
Keye Luke
China
Best movies:
The Good Earth (1937)
Mad Love (1935)
How the West Was Won (1976) (series)
Sam Harris
Australia
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Larry Steers
USA
Best movies:
The Gold Rush (1925)
Love Crazy (1941)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
John Bleifer
Russian Empire
Best movies:
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Frontier Marshal (1939)
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Edgar Barrier
USA
Best movies:
The Golden Blade (1953)
Count the Hours (1953)
The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
Leon Belasco
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Casablanca (1942)
It Started with Eve (1941)
Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
Matthew Boulton
UK
Best movies:
Shall We Dance? (1937)
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
The 39 Steps (1935)
Manuel París
Spain
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
Casablanca (1942)
Midnight (1939)
Mikhail Rasumny
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
Alex Melesh
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Arch of Triumph (1948)
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
A Day at the Races (1937)
Michael Mark
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Miracle of Fatima (1952)
Casablanca (1942)
City Girl (1930)
Shimen Ruskin
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Love and Death (1975)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Georges Renavent
France
Best movies:
Casablanca (1942)
Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Strangers on a Train (1951)