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Too Hot to Handle is a american film of genre Drama directed by Jack Conway released in USA on 16 september 1938 with Clark Gable

Too Hot to Handle (1938)

Too Hot to Handle
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Released in USA 16 september 1938
Length 1h47
Directed by ,    
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Romantic comedy,    Adventure,    Romance
Rating65% 3.2949153.2949153.2949153.2949153.294915

Too Hot to Handle is a 1938 film about a newsreel reporter, the woman he is attracted to, and his fierce competitor, played by Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, and Walter Pidgeon respectively. Many of the gags in this sequence were devised by an uncredited Buster Keaton.

Synopsis

Union Newsreel reporter Chris Hunter (Clark Gable) is sneakier and has fewer scruples than his rivals in war-torn China. When the Japanese do not oblige with a convenient aerial attack to film, Chris fakes one with a model airplane with his cameraman José Estanza (Leo Carrillo).

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