Synopsis
GABLE'S back and GARSON'S got him!
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
1945 Directed by Victor Fleming
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
Clark Gable Greer Garson Joan Blondell Thomas Mitchell Tom Tully John Qualen Richard Haydn Lina Romay Philip Merivale Harry Davenport Tito Renaldo Morris Ankrum Barbara Billingsley Betty Blythe Bess Flowers Dorothy Granger Robert Emmett O'Connor Ray Teal Martha Wentworth Byron Foulger Dick Elliott Harry Tyler Pierre Watkin Martín Garralaga Esther Howard Stanley Andrews Florence Auer Pedro de Cordoba Rex Ingram Show All…
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"There ain't a dame I can't forget in six months."
Clark Gable is a sailor with a girl in every port, except the girl in San Fran is Greer Garson. And once she gets her well-educated hooks into him all bets are off.
I spent most of this Victor Fleming melodrama confused about what we're supposed to be thinking about the "evolving" attitudes and the actions of its lead duo, he from Mars and she from Venus.
Gable's Harry is a lout who spends most of two hours yelling and stomping around and trying REAL hard to be having a good time, all the time. It's the typical 'bon vivant, hard nut with a soft centre' role that makes me…
"She is always saying goodbye to me"
Things I love about this film:
• Greer Garson, a fucking goddess.
• Lovely Joan Blondell.
• Clark Gable.
• The concept of enemies to lovers (particularly the enemies part)
• The contrast between the characters played by Greer and Joan, proper vs sassy and their lovely friendship.
• The contrast between Garson and Gable as actors and also the contrast of their characters.
• Greer Garson playing a hot librarian.
• Greer Garson wearing glasses.
• Greer Garson getting into a bar fight.
• Garson and Gable stealing chickens.
• Greer Garson imitating a rooster.
• Emily getting irritated by pretty much everything Harry says.
• Emily and Harry's first kiss :')
and I could go on and on
I just love this film so much and I will defend it until I die
Greer Garson and Clark Gable go together about as well as Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire—just an awful match. She was also one of only a few co-stars he didn't get along with, driving him near crazy with her diva demands; one of them being that the set be closed down every afternoon at 4PM for English tea. This lack of chemistry works in the beginning of the film when Garson's librarian acts like Gable's sailor isn't good enough for her; she looks down on him, and it's probably not all acting. But once she supposedly falls in love, this dynamic doesn't work anymore—when she whispers lovey-dovey things into his ear, you don't believe a word.
Nonetheless I liked Adventure…
Gable's back and Garson's got him!
That's fine, I'll take Miss Blondell...
And speaking of Joan Blondell, she played another one of her chipper gal pals, who might get a fling with the lead but never ends up with him at the end. A little disappointing, but she did play it well. Most of the rest of this is a fairly predictable romantic drama about a sailor who enters into a relationship with a librarian. Will he end up settling down? I don't know, what do you think...? Gable and Garson were fine together, but this never really reached the heights of similarly plotted films that Gable had done prior to his involvement in WWII. Crowd-pleasing, to be sure, but I prefer his 1930's output.
Adventure is actually pretty good if you just completely ignore Clark Gable and focus your attention solely on Joan Blondell and Greer Garson. Blondell and Garson play best friends and I loved all of their scenes!
YALL CALL ME CRAZY BUT I REALLY LIKED THIS LMAO
this is just an enemies to lovers fanfic
'There ain't a dame I can't forget in six months..' (Clark Gable as Harry Patterson)
Brief Synopsis: Easy-going merchant seaman (Gable) meets hoity-toity 'Frisco librarian (Greer Garson). Sparks fail to fly..
Verdict: Garson was MGM's top female star at the time and Gable was still their top male star - despite this being his first film in three years after active service in World War II - so this picture was a 'big deal' for the studio. Nothing was too good for King Gable's return so director Victor Fleming, producer Sam Zimbalist, Oscar-winning cameraman Jospeh Ruttenberg and an extensive budget were lavished on the project but all to no avail as the film proved to be a major disappointment with…