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Bookmark this pageComrade 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
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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