This film has everything! Action! Adventure! Overacting! And a painfully convoluted plotline!
I don't have the energy to sort through the detailed set-up like I normally do, so let's make this simple-ish.
Chris Hunter (Clark Gable) is the star reporter for the Union Newsreel Company. He's in Shanghai trying to get footage of the war for Union, but not having much luck ... so he cheats and manufactures a spectacular action-packed image. His rivals at the Atlas Newsreel Company discover this and set up a phony image too ... and this involves the lovely lady pilot Alma Harding (Myrna Loy).
Chris and Alma hit it off and he manipulates her into working with him for Atlas.
Then there's some nonsense where Alma flies a plane around a ship that is on fire and about to explode while Chris crawls out onto the wing to get some film of the event. Yeah SRSLY.
Eventually we get to the meat of the story where Alma's brother has been captured by a native tribe somewhere in the Amazon and she gets funding for an expedition to rescue him with Atlas ... and doesn't know that Chris is there with another cameraman from Union.
And it just gets even sillier from there.
The only real bright spot was seeing Marjorie Main as a secretary at the office for Union Newsreel.
The film tries way too hard to pack a whole lot of stuff into just 107 minutes.
In the end it's just not worth the effort. Skip it.
I don't have the energy to sort through the detailed set-up like I normally do, so let's make this simple-ish.
Chris Hunter (Clark Gable) is the star reporter for the Union Newsreel Company. He's in Shanghai trying to get footage of the war for Union, but not having much luck ... so he cheats and manufactures a spectacular action-packed image. His rivals at the Atlas Newsreel Company discover this and set up a phony image too ... and this involves the lovely lady pilot Alma Harding (Myrna Loy).
Chris and Alma hit it off and he manipulates her into working with him for Atlas.
Then there's some nonsense where Alma flies a plane around a ship that is on fire and about to explode while Chris crawls out onto the wing to get some film of the event. Yeah SRSLY.
Eventually we get to the meat of the story where Alma's brother has been captured by a native tribe somewhere in the Amazon and she gets funding for an expedition to rescue him with Atlas ... and doesn't know that Chris is there with another cameraman from Union.
And it just gets even sillier from there.
The only real bright spot was seeing Marjorie Main as a secretary at the office for Union Newsreel.
The film tries way too hard to pack a whole lot of stuff into just 107 minutes.
In the end it's just not worth the effort. Skip it.