The Making of a Legend: Gone With the Wind (1989), Manhattan Melodrama (1934), Gone with the Wind (1939), It Happened One Night (1934), China Seas (1935), Red Dust (1932), Run Silent, Run Deep (1958), The Misfits (1961) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Clark Gable movies.
Storyline: Victor Marswell runs a big game trapping company in Kenya. Eloise Kelly is ditched there, and an immediate attraction happens between them. Then Mr. and Mrs. Nordley show up for their gorilla documenting safari. Mrs. Nordley is not infatuated with her husband any more, and takes a liking to Marswell. The two men and two women have some difficulty arranging these emotions to their mutual satisfaction, but eventually succeed.—Rob Hardy <ai822@dayton.wright.edu>
Plot Keywords: adventure, romance, drama, africa, hunting, love triangle, classic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two brothers, Ben and Clint, join a cattle drive from Texas to Montana. While heading for Texas they save Nella from the Indians, and she decides to ride with them. Ben and Nella start to get romantic, but Ben isn't ambitious enough for her, and she soon meets up with the boss of the cattle drive. Will she make the right choice, and, more importantly, will the cattle make it to Montana !—Colin Tinto <cst@imdb.com>
Plot Keywords: western, adventure, action, drama, montana, gold rush, brotherhood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Stephen Ashe, an upper class alcoholic defense attourney, successfully defends local mobster Ace Wilfong in a murder case. After his daughter Jan Ashe breaks her engagement to polo player Dwight Winthrop and starts an affair with Wilfong, she finds that the liason is not easily severed when she wants out. Winthrop earns Miss Ashe's true affections by killing Wilfong to break his grip on her. Now the question is, can Stephen Ashe save Winthrop with an impassioned defense speech to the jury?—Gary Jackson <garyjack5@cogeco.ca>
Plot Keywords: drama, crime, romance, courtroom, lawyer, family, moral dilemma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: McKinley B. "Mac" Thompson, American reporter in Moscow, smuggles out uncensored news under the alias "Comrade X," but hotel valet Vanya discovers his secret. Vanya fears for the safety of his daughter Golubka ("Theodore") and blackmails Mac into helping her leave the country. Mac is happier about his task once he meets lovely Theodore, but can he convince her of his sincerity? The anti-communist humor becomes alternately grim and farcical.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, political satire, spy, war, soviet union, usa ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: "Candy" Johnson, a great crook of the Wild West, decides to find a town where he could become a big boss. To achieve this, he will need to conceal his true identity and not only pretend to be an honest man, but lead the struggle against the corrupt sheriff. No one in town realizes that the anti-corruption hero is just a greater crook himself. And there is only one person who is stronger than Johnson - a girl he is in love with.—Alexey (Moscow)
Plot Keywords: musical, western, romance, comedy, song and dance, nightclub, country music ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The best-laid plans of jewel thief Gable and lady crook Russell fall apart when the thief unintentionally becomes a hero while posing as a British officer.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: adventure, romance, comedy, crime, drama, romance, suspense ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widower father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and he sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly however, Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress. The plantation is to be sold to pay off her father's debts and as the daughter of a slave, Amantha is also to be sold as property. She is bought by a Louisiana plantation owner, Hamish Bond and over time she grows to love him until she learns he was a slave-trader. She tries again to become part of white society but realizes that her future lies elsewhere.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, historical, american civil war, race, slavery, adaptation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Clark Gable plays a card cheat who has to go on the lam to avoid a pesky cop. He meets a lonely, but slightly wild, librarian, Carole Lombard, while he is hiding out. The two get married after Lombard wins a coin flip and they move back to the city. Gable continues his gambling/cheating scheme unbeknownst to Lombard. When she discovers his "other life", she presures him to quit. Gable feels crowded and tells her that he is leaving for South America. In fact, Gable has decided he wants to go straight and turns himself in to the cop...—Jordan Caldwell <jcaldwell@tamu.edu>
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, comedy, pre-code hollywood, marriage, gambling, deception ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Mike Hamilton, a Philadelphia lawyer, comes to Naples to settle the estate of his long estranged "black sheep" brother. Once there, he discovers that the deceased has left an eight-year old little boy named Nando, who is being raised by Michael's sister-in-law Lucia Curcio. Mike immediately disapproves of Nando's Italian-style (in other words "lax") education. To make matters worse, Lucia happens to be ... a sexy nightclub dancer. This is too much for a puritan like Mike and the only solution in his eyes is to have the boy brought up in the States...—Guy Bellinger
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, love, italy, 1960s, culture clash, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: At a Mayor's convention in San Francisco, California, ex-longshoreman Steve Fisk meets Clarissa Standish from New England. Fisk is Mayor of Puget City, and is proud of his rough and tumble background. Standish is Mayor of Winona, Maine, and is equally proud of her education and dedication to the people who elected her. Thrown together, the two opposites attract, and their escapades during the convention get each of them in hot water back home.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: romantic comedy, classic film, black and white, 1950s, love story, small town life, political satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Blackfoot woman as a way to gain entrance into her people's rich lands, but finds she means more to him than a ticket to good beaver habitat.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: western, adventure, historical, american frontier, 19th century, wilderness survival, exploration ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Mike Brannon is a former war hero turned midget car racer. His ruthless racing tactics have made him successful but the fans consider him a villain and boo him mercilessly. Independent, beautiful reporter Regina Forbes tries to interview him but is put off by his gruff chauvinism, and when Brannon's daredevil tactics cause the death of a fellow driver, he finds himself a pariah in the sport thanks to her articles. When she finds him earning money as a barnstorming daredevil driver hoping for a comeback, they begin to become mutually attracted.—duke1029@aol.com
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, film noir, crime, racing, journalism, moral dilemma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Smooth cowboy Dan Kehoe arrives at a ranch run by an old widow and her four daughters-in-law. He's been tipped off that the proceeds of a gold robbery are hidden on the ranch, but only one of the women knows where. He plays them off against each other in his quest to discover the location.—Col Needham <col@imdb.com>
Plot Keywords: western, adventure, romance, drama, 1950s, color film, outlaw ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nina Leeds (Norma Shearer) loses the love of her life when he is killed in World War I. She marries the loyal Sam Evans (Alexander Kirkland), but immediately stops caring for him when she realizes that they cannot have children together. She eventually begins an extramarital romance with a doctor named Ned Darrell (Clark Gable), and they have a child, Gordon (Robert Young). The domineering Nina attempts to pass the child off as Sam's own, leading to years of tragic family dysfunction.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, psychological, adaptation, stage play, classic, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Barbary Coast gambler (Clark Gable) loves his new saloon singer (Jeanette MacDonald), then loses her in the 1906 earthquake panic.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, music, musical, disaster, historical, classic ...
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