Comrade X

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Steve D The script is a poor man's Ninotchka but with this cast who cares? A poor mans Ninotchka is still a great film. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 05/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Had promise at beginning especially with Gable and Nazi official Sig Ruman fighting over who had rights to the Soviet hotel room. But film deteriorated quickly. "Ninotchka" so much wittier and Ernst Lubitsch-Billy Wilder treatment made Garbo more thoughtful than Hedy Lamarr. One fascinating prescient point about "Comrade X" - it was made in 1940 before Germany invaded Russia in late June 1941. Yet the Ben Hecht-Charles Lederer script has Germany invading Russia and the great Sig Ruman gets into argument with Soviet porter Felix Bressart - they curse at each other and Sig stalks out of room and unfortunately out of the movie. Happily Sig and Felix were reunited in the great original "To Be Or Not To Be" in 1942. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member While very similar to Ninotchka with Greta Garbo, I preferred Comrade X. Both movies are funny, entertaining and well acted considering the genre, but I thought Comrade X was slightly better. I especially loved Hedy's portrayal of Theodore; Clark was also excellent. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review ashley h Comrade X is a decent film. It is about an American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow who is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country. Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr give good performances. The screenplay is a little slow in places. King Vidor did an alright job directing this movie. I liked this motion picture because of the humor and romance. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member I thought it was a funny film. It shows the outrageous suspicions that all Russians had in the Soviet Union. I like how the sets look. I think it is a comedy, a mystery, and several other kinds of genre type of film which I am not sure I'm able to clearly identify. I thought it was a pretty great film. I would buy it. Clark Gabel did a very good job acting in this film. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Ben Hecht wrote this pre-cold war comedy about newspaperman Clark Gable falling for beautiful communist Hedy Lamarr in this Ninotchka-esque romantic comedy. It's really only a mediocre comedy, but Lamarr is gorgeous and charming and there are certainly some good bits of dialogue from Hecht ("You can't have a revolution in a country where the people love hot dogs and boogie-woogie." or "Don't get nervous honey, we're all safe inside this room. We can take our ideals out and play with them.") I've never been that big a fan of Gable, but it's adequate for the role of a brassy American. Lamarr and the sporadic Hecht zingers are really the only reason to watch this one. It's not a classic, but it's worth checking out if you're run out of great classic comedies to watch. And on a related note, I'm on a quest to find if there was ever a "great" film that Lamarr appeared in, because it is my new theory that she has been somewhat of a forgotten star because she seemed to have appeared only is average films and never any real classics. So far, of the films I've watched, I'm thinking "Algiers" is the closest she's come to a classic and that one is still really not a classic. It's a shame because she does have some comedy chops, solid screen charisma and is, of course, absolutely gorgeous. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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