China Seas
China Seas is a 1935 American adventure film starring Clark Gable as a brave sea captain, Jean Harlow as his brassy paramour, and Wallace Beery as a suspect character. The oceangoing epic also features Rosalind Russell, Lewis Stone, Akim Tamiroff, and Hattie McDaniel, while humorist Robert Benchley memorably portrays a character reeling drunk from one end of the film to the other.
Plot
Alan Gaskell (Clark Gable) is an abrasive, gambling, captain of a steamer, the Kin Lung, chugging between Singapore and Hong Kong. Tensions are high before the Kin Lung sails from Hong Kong because pirates are discovered disguised as women passengers while others try to smuggle weapons aboard.
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| author | James Kevin McGuinness Jules Furthman |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Hong Kong |
| director | Tay Garnett |
| editor | William LeVanway |
| events | sea piracy seamanship |
| genre | adventure drama |
| keywords | a mala faint gamble gold shipment limp malay boot mills bomb plan singapore typhoon warn |
| musicBy | Herbert Stothart |
| producer | Albert Lewin Irving Thalberg |
| publisher | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| theme | romantic drama |