10/2/2023 0 Comments Player 2 helldivers accident![]() One reviewer here said Gable landed a plane while holding a bomb on a wing. I looked up Gables filmography and it shows he made 12(!) movies in 1931 alone about 1/5 of his total talkies made! That said, and I'm sorry to point that out, the rest of the film is very entertaining. Now this movie has the US Navy's hands all over this, the script had the leads as senior enlisted (which I love because I am Navy Enlisted and tired of all the Officer portrayal's), they did that so the leads could get by with the off color happenings off of the ship, but a remark like that should never have gotten into any movie that the Navy approved. ![]() In this movie however, Clark Gable actually says in an argument with Berry's CPO character that if he were to take over being the Leading Chief to the squadron that he first would "fumegate so a White Man could move in". Now I'm the first to defend a movie like Mask of Fu Manchu that seems to have been labeled as racist (by reviewers here) because of the portrayal of evil Asian characters out to get the White race, because that is a plausible storyline (because history has shown constant clashes of cultures, IE Imperial Japan). However, this one was very early in his career and he does have a bad monologue moment that really surprised me that it made it into the script. I am a huge Gable fan, I don't think there is a movie with him that I have not liked. I guess I was more in joy watching this movie to see the hardware involved in this movie than the actual acting. Naval aviation buffs will get a real treat looking at Uncle Sam's Navy in 1930 and the Saratoga one of our earliest aircraft carriers. She tries to smooth out some of the rough edges in Beery without success. Look also for a very nice and understated performance by Marjorie Rambeau who is Beery's long suffering gal pal. In the end though Gable, Beery, and pilot Conrad Nagel are all in a tight spot and the navy comradeship comes through in the end. Gable doesn't take that lying down, but he doesn't really have to do too much because Beery fouls up all on his own quite nicely. It's really bad between the two of them as Beery hires Marie Prevost to come on to Gable in front of Dorothy Jordan who Gable wants to marry. This was Clark Gable's best role to date and he had to keep on his toes lest Wallace Beery steal the film. Some nice navy footage is integrated well into Wead's story about two navy CPOS who are constantly at war with each other on and off duty. Wings Of Eagles was about Frank Wead who wrote the original story for Hell Divers and MGM spared no expense on the budget in bringing this one to the big screen. ![]() ![]() I certainly did want to see all of Hell Divers and I have to say I was not disappointed. Ironic as all get out since Clark Gable had been let go three years earlier from MGM after being the franchise star that studio was built around. For years and years Hell Divers was not available and the only bit we saw from this film occurs in Wings Of Eagles where a clip from this is shown as some of the characters there remarked about that new young actor with the big ears who was proving to be a sensation.
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