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Comrade X (1940)

Director: King Vidor

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From Time Out Film Guide

By no means classic Vidor: its characters - Gable as an American journalist in Soviet Russia, Lamarr as the source of his scoop stories - are simply too bland to animate the film. Only in the last sequence, where Gable and Lamarr escape from Russia in a tank, closely pursued by virtually the whole of the Russian army, does Vidor successfully visualise (albeit comically: the script is by Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer) the tensions that the characters set in motion. A superb piece of entertainment, none the less.

Author: PH 0000-00-00 00:00:00

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Cast & crew

Director: King Vidor

Producer: Gottfried Reinhardt

Cast: Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Felix Bressart, Oscar Homolka, Eve Arden, Sig Rumann full cast

Genre(s): Action/Adventure

Duration: 90 mins


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