Get ready for loads of action and adventure on the “China Seas” with Clark Gable and company. The cast behind Gable in this top-rate MGM production includes Rosalind Russell as his fiance, Jean Harlow as the ex-girl friend, Wallace Beery as a big-time trouble maker, Robert Benchley as the ship’s drunk, and Lewis Stone, C. Aubrey Smith, Lilian Bond, and Dudley Digges along for the ride. Hattie McDaniel appears in an uncredited role as Harlow’s maid. She would be reunited four years later with Gable in the cast of “Gone With the Wind.”
Director Tay Garnett (“The Postman Always Rings Twice” 1946) and screenwriters James Kevin McGuinness and Jules Furthman kept the production values high and thus the audience’s attention throughout the film’s 87 minute running time. The movie was adapted from a popular 1931 novel of the same name by Crosbie Garstin. The watchable and exciting “China Seas” was great escapist Depression Era entertainment and a big hit at the box office for producer Irving Thalberg and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
China Seas (1935)
cinema
My Review
Get ready for loads of action and adventure on the “China Seas” with Clark Gable and company. The cast behind Gable in this top-rate MGM production includes Rosalind Russell as his fiance, Jean Harlow as the ex-girl friend, Wallace Beery as a big-time trouble maker, Robert Benchley as the ship’s drunk, and Lewis Stone, C. Aubrey Smith, Lilian Bond, and Dudley Digges along for the ride. Hattie McDaniel appears in an uncredited role as Harlow’s maid. She would be reunited four years later with Gable in the cast of “Gone With the Wind.”
Director Tay Garnett (“The Postman Always Rings Twice” 1946) and screenwriters James Kevin McGuinness and Jules Furthman kept the production values high and thus the audience’s attention throughout the film’s 87 minute running time. The movie was adapted from a popular 1931 novel of the same name by Crosbie Garstin. The watchable and exciting “China Seas” was great escapist Depression Era entertainment and a big hit at the box office for producer Irving Thalberg and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.