New York State Writers Institute - Classic Film Series

TOO HOT TO HANDLE May 11, 2001 (Friday) at 7:30 p.m. Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue (Free and Open to the Public) (American, 1938, 105 minutes, b&w, 16mm, Directed by Jack Conway Starring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Walter Connolly

Two opportunistic newsreel photographers, played by Clark Gable and Walter Pidgeon, accompany a famous aviatrix, Myrna Loy, into the deepest jungles of the Amazon in search of her missing brother. The classic opening sequence of a fake bombing raid in this fast-paced action-commedy, was allegedly conceived by Buster Keaton, then a free-lance MGM gagman.

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