China Seas (film)

China Seas is a 1935 adventure film starring Clark Gable as a brave sea captain, Jean Harlow as his brassy paramour, and Wallace Beery as an extremely suspiciouslooking character. The oceangoing epic also features Lewis Stone and Rosalind Russell, while humorist Robert Benchley memorably portrays a character reeling drunk from one end of the film to the other.

Alan Gaskell Clark Gable is the captain of a tramp steamer chugging between Singapore and Hong Kong. Dolly Portland Jean Harlow is Alans former girlfriend who books passage on the steamer at the same time that another of Alans former loves, aristocratic Sybil Barclay Rosalind Russell, shows up. Jamesy McArdle Wallace Beery is a passenger, who is actually in league with a gang of pirates who plan to steal the gold shipment being carried on the steamer.Irving Thalberg had worked on the film since 1930 when he assigned three different writers to come up with three different treatments. By 1931 Thalberg had decided on the one storyline and spent the next four years working on a script with two dozen writers, half a dozen directors and three supervisors. ........

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