Too Hot to Handle (1938 film)

Too Hot to Handle is a 1938 film about a newsreel reporter, the woman he is attracted to, and his fierce competitor, played by Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, and Walter Pidgeon respectively. Many of the comedy gags were devised by an uncredited Buster Keaton.

Outraged when he finds out, Chriss main competitor, Atlas Newsreels Bill Dennis Walter Pidgeon decides to do the same, having his aviator friend Alma Harding Myrna Loy fly in serum for an imaginary cholera outbreak. Chris finds out and swoops in to film her landing. Jos, however, drives too close to the plane, causing it to crash and burst into flame. Chris rescues Alma, but when he starts to go back for the serum, she has to admit the truth.Chris piles on lie after lie to romance Alma, even pretending to get fired by his boss, Gabby MacArthur Walter Connolly, for burning the footage. Chris convinces her to work for Union. She reveals that she needs the money to mount a search for her brother Harry, lost in the Amazon jungle and given up for dead by everyone else. They travel to New York where Gabby is eagerly awaiting the landing footage Chris is secretly bringing. Bill follows to protect the woman he has loved for years from his unscrupulous competitor. ........

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