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starring: Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Oskar Homolka, Felix Bressart, Eve Ardendirected by: King Vidor
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303014012
Format: Black & White, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6303014011
Label: MGM (Warner)
Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Warner)
Release Date: September 01, 1998
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 6862
Studio: MGM (Warner)
Theatrical Release Date: December 13, 1940
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Rating:  - An easy to forget film!
After the release of Ninotchka there was an attempt to explore and exploit and blend the love with the political consequences of living in a country placed behind the iron' s curtain. Nevertheless King Vidor `s only minor film is precisely this one in which nothing happens, due perhaps the narrowness of its limits.
Rating: - Amazingly Frank Satire of Stalinist Russia
Many movies poke fun at the Soviets. Having traveled to Russia several times, this is my favorite. When so many misguided leftists of the 1940's were defending communism, this film courageously suggests the pervasiveness of the totalitarian government of Stalin. (It was filmed just before Russia was attacked by the Germans in World War II)
Clark Gable plays a journalist who is also doubling as an American spy. When his spy activity is discovered by a hotel employee cleaning his ... Read More
Rating: - Rare Hollywood Film The Poked Fun At The Commies
This film was made at the time when the Communist Party and it's agents were trying to infiltrate Hollywood at all levels. ( "Hollywood Party" is a must companion book for this movie), given the power of the party and the communist screenwriters who were at the pinacle of Hollywood success at the time. It was brave for Gable & Lamarr to make this film. Comrade X is the only film ever made in Hollywood that ever tried to portray the harsh reality of Soviet Russia. Granted it did so in a comedic ... Read More
Rating: - It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This
Coming on the heels of Garbo's "Ninotchka" this film was somewhat dismissed as lightweight, but in retrospect it is a delightfully hilarious blend of political satire and slapstick comedy from King Vidor. The writing team of Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer gave the legendary director a gem of a script, poking fun at communism while still allowing its stars, Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr, to be, well Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr. The result was a film that was much funnier and way more entertaining than ... Read More
Rating: - Unvarnished truth is so rare as to be uncomfortable to watch
It's a light hearted comedy in which about a hundred innocents are politely executed and the people are sheep armed only with idealist slogans and happy-faced song while awaiting slaughter. The juxtaposition of the politely murderous and naively suicidal is admirably bold for Hollywood, precisely because it is political and real, if uncomfortably strange.
Gable plays the typical driven ... romantic lead of the genre. The hero in the story is his "presser" (a valet) who wants his daughter ... Read More
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