China Seas Digital Life DVD

China Seas
starring: Mary Doran, John Warburton, Barnett Parker, Sheila Terry, Clarence Kolb
directed by: Reginald Le Borg, Tay Garnett

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569792159
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 20, 2006
Running Time: 87 minutes
Sales Rank: 19458
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: August 16, 1935

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Rugged Captain Alan Gaskell (Clark Gable) sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries. Both his fiery mistress (Jean Harlow) and his refined fiancee (Rosalind Russell) are aboard! With their wisecracking banter, gutsy glamour and dynamic physicality, Gable and Harlow prove once again that they were the '30s most scorching screen pair in this rough-and-tumble tale of the sea. Highlights include a raging typhoon, a battle with bloodthirsty Malay pirates, and Harlow's drinking contest with bluff villain Wallace Beery, who wants the gold and the platinum blonde. Adventure (and Golden Era allure) dead ahead on China Seas.

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Sea captain Clark Gable has his hands full on the Hong Kong-Singapore route: secret gold hidden below decks, pirates, a typhoon. None of which truly matters, since the real action here is animal attraction: Gable can't believe the one classy lady (Rosalind Russell) he ever loved has come on board the same time as his bawdy mistress (Jean Harlow). Director Tay Garnett does well by the storm at sea and the marauding pirates, but he knows the real fun is when Gable and Harlow trade smoldering glances and caustic one-liners. And if more deliciously vulgar dialogue is needed, Wallace Beery is there to spray it around. However preposterous all this may seem, it's so spicily written (script by James Kevin McGuinness and the gifted Jules Furthman) and perfectly cast that it satisfies on pretty much every level. Gable was at his prime here, a bullheadedly confident example of machismos americanus in his natural habitat, and in Harlow he found his perfect unpretentious sparring partner. China Seas is essentially a rehash of their teaming in Red Dust, but absolutely nobody minded. --Robert Horton

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- Harlow rocks this campy boat!
This movie is so corny and hilarious (sometimes unintentionally). It's one of my feel good fav's. I bought this one for Harlow and she is at her trashy, sarcastic, platinum blonde best!

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- "Just showering dewdrops off the body beautiful..."
CHINA SEAS reunited Clark Gable and Jean Harlow following their celebrated partnership in "Red Dust"--exchanging the sultry jungle setting for an exciting adventure on the seas. Rosalind Russell and Wallace Beery co-star.

Clark Gable plays Captain Alan Gaskell, at the helm of a ship bound for Singapore; and trying to shake off his unwelcome stowaway, former mistress Dolly "China Doll" Portland (Jean Harlow). Adding even more complications is Gaskell's prim fiancee Sybil Barclay (Rosalind Russell). The love triangle is set against the Hong Kong-Singapore voyage, complete with a ferocious storm and a pirate attack.

CHINA SEAS is a briskly-paced romantic adventure, peppered with razor sharp dialogue. Clark Gable and Jean Harlow fall effortlessly back into the easygoing chemistry they shared in "Red Dust". In a severely under-written role (which might have originally been pegged for Mary ... Read More

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- Gable Harlow and Beery
Good old fashioned adventure/romance like they can't make anymore. I hadn't seen it in a long time when I purchased the DVD and was surprised by the absence of a grand guns-blazing battle near the end that seemed to be set-up by the film's progress. Still, worth your dime.

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- Grand entertainment, MGM style!
China Seas isn't a profound or lasting classic, but it is a rip-roaring example of just how entertaining the studio system could be at its best during the Golden Age, as Clark Gable battles typhoons, Malay pirates with big feet and Malay boots and the differing charms of Jean Harlow and Rosalind Russell while Wallace Beery plots to steal his cargo and a blotto Robert Benchley bobs along dispensing non-sequiters to all and sundry. At heart it's just a post-Code Red Dust on the Hong Kong-Shanghai run, Harlow's distinctly not at her best rehashing her brassy platinum blonde act for the umpteenth time and Russell is more affected than alluring, but Tay Garnett keeps it moving so fast that it doesn't matter. Great entertainment with all the stops pulled out.

Extras are a James Fitzpatrick travelog on Japan, a short film A Girl's Best Years and theatrical trailer.

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