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China Seas | 
 enlarge | Director: Tay Garnett
Actors: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Rosalind Russell
Studio: MGM (Warner)
Category: Video
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 19814
Format: Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 87
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6301967763
UPC: 027616056139
EAN: 9786301967761
ASIN: 6301967763
Theatrical Release Date: August 16, 1935
Release Date: March 7, 1994
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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! May 7, 2008
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!
"Just showering dewdrops off the body beautiful..." October 21, 2007
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 Astor), Rosalind Russell tries her best; Wallace Beery puts in a good-humored performance as the resident heel of the piece.
The DVD includes Vitaphone musical short "A Girl's Best Years", Fitzpatrick TravelTalk short "Cherry Blossom Time in Japan", and the trailer. Also available as part of Clark Gable - The Signature Collection (Dancing Lady / China Seas / San Francisco / Wife vs. Secretary / Boom Town / Mogambo)
Gable Harlow and Beery January 19, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
Grand entertainment, MGM style! November 8, 2006
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.
Has any couple ever sizzled like Harlow vs Gable? March 3, 2006
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I don't think so, be it in the jungle, a New York high rise or at sea. Hepburn & Tracy were great, no argument. But they were so modern & urbane, not rowdy & sexy, always fighting like Harlow & Gable. China Seas is a fine example of this chemistry. Yeah, & its a pretty good story too. Gable is Capt. Gaskell, skipper of a passenger/merchant ship running from Hong Kong to Singapore. Harlow is the floozie, Dolly, he had a fling with on shore. The ship is carrying gold. There is a terrific typhoon, & a pirate raid in which the ship is seized for a while. They torture the Captain, but he doesn't reveal where the gold is. Dolly is mixed up in a conspiracy with a crewman, Wallace Berry, against the Captain because she is mad at him. She of course changes her mind. The Captain is trying to ditch Dolly & thinks he's meant for Lady Sybil, played by Rosalind Russell, an old flame. But he & Dolly really are in love. Unfortunately the collaborations between Harlow & Gable was cut short at five movies with Harlow untimely & early death several years later.
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