This is a "vintage" movie from the early 1930's. It is the only movie that starred Clark Gable and his 3rd wife, Carole Lombard. I just read a Gable biography and am reading one of Lombard, so I was curious to see this movie they teamed up in. It was made a few years before they hooked up - while they were both married to other people.

The movie is a dumb story of a gambler who goes to a small town and meets a librarian who falls for him. He tries to convince her he is a "businessman" by faking it for a while. The police are after him so he decides to turn himself in and do his time while fooling the librarian (now his wife) into believing he's gone to South America. He comes back, she tells him she knew and she is pregnant and all is happy ever after. Really stupid plot, but it was interesting to see the two teamed up.

anyone who enjoys vintage movies from the very early 1930's. I like watching them even when they are dumb like this one.

Gable and Lombard together - seeing them and how they interact was interesting.

the dumb plot.

read more about Lombard and so I am. I also would like to see some of her later screwball comedies. The only one of those I've seen so far is "My Man Godfrey."

is good. I think that Hattie McDaniel might have an unbilled non-speaking part. I seem to see her in the background in a lot of Clark Gable movies.

if you are curious to see Gable and Lombard together, as I was, this is the only movie where they were cast together. Theirs was a tragic marriage ended by Ms. Lombard's death in a mysterious TWA plane crash on January 16, 1942.

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