Post by butterscotchgreer on Aug 5, 2007 23:55:17 GMT -5
i have not seen this film but yearn to extremely. greer stars in this one with clark gable. here are a few comments on it.
Those were alternate tag lines that MGM offered to Greer Garson when she complained about "Gable's back and Garson's got him".
"This really is a wonderful movie, but perhaps a bit hard to understand after only one viewing. It certainly wasn't what the public was expecting in 1945/6. After seeing it several times I find it just gets better and better.
Gable chews up scenery, knocks down doors, punches a few guys, and kisses some beautiful women, all because he is fed up with life and with the sorry state of mankind. When he meets Greer, he backs her up against a library shelf to intimidate her but she doesn't budge. He can't understand why this "tomato" doesn't fall for his rough charm the way most women do. It takes him the whole movie to realize that Greer is exactly what he's been looking for all along.
Greer is first repulsed by Gable, then fascinated, then jealous of Joan Blondell, eventually infatuated with him, and finally resigned to losing him to the sea and to his quest for the elusive quality that he calls "it". His pal Thomas Mitchell realizes that she is just what Gable needs.
Garson and Gable are great together. If you're a fan of either, then you'll need to see this movie.
And you'll learn neat stuff like how to mesmerize a chicken and how inexpensive groceries were in 1945.
You'll even get to see Greer imitating a rooster. It's almost as good as her sea lion imitation in "Julia Misbehaves". "
"I was 8 years old when I saw this movie and it impressed me so much. I will never forget 3 things in the movie "Adventure". How to hypnotize a chicken; how the water drains out of the tub in a different direction depending on which side of the equator you live; how Clark Gable was yelling at his newborn baby to breathe.It was such a good romance, even to a young girl and I remember how the friend, Mudgin, was afraid of losing his soul. I am 64 years old now and it is still as fresh in my mind as it was in 1946 in Hartshorne, Oklahoma. "
Those were alternate tag lines that MGM offered to Greer Garson when she complained about "Gable's back and Garson's got him".
"This really is a wonderful movie, but perhaps a bit hard to understand after only one viewing. It certainly wasn't what the public was expecting in 1945/6. After seeing it several times I find it just gets better and better.
Gable chews up scenery, knocks down doors, punches a few guys, and kisses some beautiful women, all because he is fed up with life and with the sorry state of mankind. When he meets Greer, he backs her up against a library shelf to intimidate her but she doesn't budge. He can't understand why this "tomato" doesn't fall for his rough charm the way most women do. It takes him the whole movie to realize that Greer is exactly what he's been looking for all along.
Greer is first repulsed by Gable, then fascinated, then jealous of Joan Blondell, eventually infatuated with him, and finally resigned to losing him to the sea and to his quest for the elusive quality that he calls "it". His pal Thomas Mitchell realizes that she is just what Gable needs.
Garson and Gable are great together. If you're a fan of either, then you'll need to see this movie.
And you'll learn neat stuff like how to mesmerize a chicken and how inexpensive groceries were in 1945.
You'll even get to see Greer imitating a rooster. It's almost as good as her sea lion imitation in "Julia Misbehaves". "
"I was 8 years old when I saw this movie and it impressed me so much. I will never forget 3 things in the movie "Adventure". How to hypnotize a chicken; how the water drains out of the tub in a different direction depending on which side of the equator you live; how Clark Gable was yelling at his newborn baby to breathe.It was such a good romance, even to a young girl and I remember how the friend, Mudgin, was afraid of losing his soul. I am 64 years old now and it is still as fresh in my mind as it was in 1946 in Hartshorne, Oklahoma. "
