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| Directed by | Victor Fleming |
| Produced by | Sam Zimbalist |
| Written by | Clyde Brion Davis (novel) Anthony Veiller |
| Starring | Clark Gable Greer Garson Joan Blondell Morris Ankrum |
| Music by | Herbert Stothart |
| Cinematography | Joseph Ruttenberg |
| Editing by | Frank Sullivan |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn Mayer |
| Release date(s) | December 28, 1945 |
| Running time | 135 minutes |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
Adventure is a 1945 film based on the novel The Anointed by Clyde Brion Davis. Clark Gable and Greer Garson star as a sailor and a librarian. It was Gable's first postwar film and the tagline repeated in the movie's famous trailer was "Gable's back and Garson's got him!" Directed by Victor Fleming, one of Gable's favorite directors.
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Plot
When his ship is torpedoed by a Japanese submarine, Harry Patterson (Clark Gable), a World War II merchant marine boatswain, is cast adrift on a launch with a few of his shipmates. Harry remains calm in the face of disaster, but his friend Mudgin (Thomas Mitchell) panics and makes desperate pleas to God for help, promising to avoid women, liquor and fighting and to donate money to the church if they are saved.1
The seamen are saved and put ashore in San Francisco, where they celebrate their safe return to land with a haircut and a visit to a bar. Mudgin breaks all his promises to God soon after arriving in San Francisco and becomes depressed, certain that he has "lost his immortal soul." While Mudgin's shipmates laugh off his concerns, Harry, realizing that Mudgin is truly wracked with guilt, helps his troubled shipmate find his lost soul.
Their journey takes them no further than a city library, where Harry and Mudgin meet the attractive, straight-laced librarian Emily Sears (Greer Garson). Although intrigued by Emily, Harry repeatedly raises her ire with his brutish manner and argumentative nature. Harry's attention quickly shifts away from Emily, however, when her outgoing roommate, Helen Melohn (Joan Blondell), arrives.2
Harry and Helen hit it off immediately, and Emily reluctantly accompanies the three on a dinner date. At the restaurant, Emily stuns Harry when she abandons her reserved demeanor and starts a bar fight to bring the night to a close. Convinced that Emily is the "freshest dame" he ever met, Harry decides to pursue her affections in earnest and arranges to meet the two women the following day at Emily's farm outside the city.
Harry and Emily soon fall completely in love and get married in Reno. When they return to Emily's farm, Harry tells Emily that he will be shipping out in a few days, which comes as a shock to Emily and prompts her to ask for a divorce. Harry sails for the high seas, and during his absence Emily realizes that she is pregnant with Harry's child.
While docked in a South American port city, Mudgin falls off the ship and, before dying in Harry's arms, says that his soul has been returned to him.
Months after his departure, Harry returns to San Francisco and learns from Helen that Emily has long since given up on him and gone to her farm to give birth to their child. Harry arrives at the farm just as Emily goes into labor, and when the baby is stillborn, he repeatedly begs the baby to breath for his mother, and it begins to breathe.3
Cast
- Clark Gable as Harry Patterson
- Greer Garson as Emily Sears
- Joan Blondell as Helen Melohn
- Thomas Mitchell as Mudgin
- Tom Tully as Gus
- John Qualen as Model T
- Richard Haydn as Emo
- Lina Romay as Maria
- Philip Merivale as Old Ramon Estado
- Harry Davenport as Dr. Ashlon
- Tito Renaldo as Young Ramon Estado
- Stanley Andrews as Bit part (unconfirmed)
- Florence Auer as Landlady (unconfirmed)
- Pedro de Cordoba as Felipe (unconfirmed)
- Joseph Crehan as Ed (unconfirmed)
- Rex Ingram as Preacher (unconfirmed)
- Garry Owen as Jabbo (unconfirmed)
- Harry Wilson as Big mug (unconfirmed)
- Morris Ankrum as Mr. Ludlow (farmer) (uncredited)
- Barbara Billingsley as Dame #2 (uncredited)
- Betty Blythe as Mrs. Buckley (uncredited)
- Max Davidson as Man in library (uncredited)
- Sayre Dearing as Roulette man (uncredited)
- Dick Elliott as George (uncredited)
- Bess Flowers as The Modiste (uncredited)
- Byron Foulger as Mr. Littleton (uncredited)
- Martin Garralaga as Nick (bartender) (uncredited)
- Dorothy Granger as Cashier (uncredited)
- John Harmon as Taxi driver (uncredited)
- Eddie Hart as Milkman (uncredited)
- Esther Howard as Blister (uncredited)
- Tom Kingston as Chip man (uncredited)
- Charles La Torre as Tony (the merchant) (uncredited)
- Marta Linden as Woman with Gus in bar (uncredited)
- Claire McDowell as Woman in library (uncredited)
- Kay Medford as Red (uncredited)
- Chef Milani as Rudolfo (uncredited)
- Sue Moore as Dame #4 (uncredited)
- William Newell as Barber #1 (uncredited)
- Ralph Peters as Joe (uncredited)
- Lee Phelps as Bartender at Frank & Bob's Place (uncredited)
- John Piffle as Man in library (uncredited)
- Rebel Randall as Dame #3 (uncredited)
- Elizabeth Russell as Dame #1 (uncredited)
- Ray Teal as Steve (the Maritime Commissioner) (uncredited)
- Joan Thorsen as Model (uncredited)
- Audrey Totter as Ethel (uncredited)
- Harry Tyler as Doctor (uncredited)
- Dale Van Sickel as Dance floor brawler (uncredited)
- Dorothy Vaughan as Mrs. Ludlow (uncredited)
- Pierre Watkin as Mr. Buckley (uncredited)
- Martha Wentworth as Woman (uncredited)
- Jack Young as Ship's captain (uncredited)
References
External links
Adventure at the Internet Movie Database
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