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Jonny Davis (Clark Gable) and his kid brother Kirk (Robert Sterling) are ace war correspondents. Both are in love with bright-topped Paula Lane (Lana Turner), also an ace war correspondent. The trio's assignments take them from Manhattan to French Indo-China and Manila. But most of the time they are busier with their luckless love affair. Their story is mainly a set of cues for the sort of hard-boiled mating-dance at which Mr. Gable is an amiable virtuoso. In Manhattan Jonny makes love to Paula, then jilts her. In Indo-China Paula makes love...
...When Sweater Girl Lana Turner made a sales trip to San Francisco's Treasure Island Naval Base, workers hoisted her to a platform, where she hoisted sales...
Back in Hollywood from selling war bonds in the northwest, Lana Turner, who had kissed each purchaser of $50,000 worth, declared after mature consideration: "A kiss at $50,000 really is pretty expensive. Believe me, it isn't worth...
Tarzan Triumphs—"a story of the ape-man's defense of the British Empire against the Nazis in Deepest Africa." To reporters in Portland, Ore., Lana Turner confided: "Hollywood is not as bad as some writers picture it. We have the most dignified and refined and gentle manly people that you could find in the world...
...little obvious and its plot at times doesn't stand up under close inspection, the picture is a fast-moving, well-acted, well-written, and excellently directed gangster story. Robert Taylor is a big-shot crook with a heart so hard that he doesn't fall in love with Lana Turner till almost the end of the picture. When he does find that he loves her the story becomes lightly trite and melodramatic, but up to then it moves along with a freshness, rapidity, and even originality, which are a pleasure to behold...