I don't know what to say good about this movie. Sure, Clark Gable and Lana Turner are big stars. Too bad they were not given a "big script" to act with.
Two brothers seeking the attention of the same girl - unbeknownst to each brother - is not a believable story plot.
Lana Turner's role in immediately flirting with Clark Gable whom she remembers but he is left to guess while she in behind the bedroom door in a bathroom getting "ready" is silly and speaks to the fact that her character has little character. She is at the point where Gable's brother has confessed to Clark that he wants to marry the girl and yet, she is ready, willing, and able to let Clark kiss her on the side of the face and smell her perfume close up.
I found the movie boring and uninteresting. For a film with Gable and Turner, the studio should have given them a dramatic story. This one seems hastened and geared for viewers who follow magazine romance stories.
It seems that the real reason for making this film is to serve as propaganda to bolster American morale immediately after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. For the story is of the two brothers, Clark Gable and Robert Sterling, both war correspondents, and Lana Turner globe trotting over Asia and the Pacific war islands to rev-up morale for the war effort. In the end, Gable dictates a newspaper story to Turner while under enemy fire following the fall of Batan leaving the impression that America is "not licked yet, and we have just begun to fight!"
Well, at least the movie served it's purpose to sell WWII war bonds!
Larry de Illinois
Two brothers seeking the attention of the same girl - unbeknownst to each brother - is not a believable story plot.
Lana Turner's role in immediately flirting with Clark Gable whom she remembers but he is left to guess while she in behind the bedroom door in a bathroom getting "ready" is silly and speaks to the fact that her character has little character. She is at the point where Gable's brother has confessed to Clark that he wants to marry the girl and yet, she is ready, willing, and able to let Clark kiss her on the side of the face and smell her perfume close up.
I found the movie boring and uninteresting. For a film with Gable and Turner, the studio should have given them a dramatic story. This one seems hastened and geared for viewers who follow magazine romance stories.
It seems that the real reason for making this film is to serve as propaganda to bolster American morale immediately after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. For the story is of the two brothers, Clark Gable and Robert Sterling, both war correspondents, and Lana Turner globe trotting over Asia and the Pacific war islands to rev-up morale for the war effort. In the end, Gable dictates a newspaper story to Turner while under enemy fire following the fall of Batan leaving the impression that America is "not licked yet, and we have just begun to fight!"
Well, at least the movie served it's purpose to sell WWII war bonds!
Larry de Illinois