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McKinley B. 'Mac' Thompson
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Comrade X is a 1940 American comedy spy film directed by King Vidor and starring Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr. The supporting cast features Oskar Homolka, Felix Bressart, Sig Rumann and Eve Arden. In February 2020, the film was shown at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, as part of a retrospective dedicated to King Vidor's career. [2]
Comrade X: Directed by King Vidor. With Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Oscar Homolka, Felix Bressart. An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
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- Comedy, Romance
- King Vidor
- 1940-12-13
Comrade X - (Original Trailer) Clark Gable plays an American reporter who warms up icy Russian streetcar conductor Hedy Lamarr in Comrade X (1940).
- King Vidor, Tom Andre
- Clark Gable
Hotel valet Vanya (Felix Bressart) discovers his true identity and blackmails him into spiriting his beloved daughter, a Communist streetcar driver who...
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- King Vidor
- Romance, Comedy
- Clark Gable
In this era of American ambivalence towards Russia, an American reporter is smuggling news out of Russia under the nom de plume 'Comrade X.' A hotel employee discovers his identity and blackmails him into taking the employee's beautiful pro-communist daughter out of the country.
Play Trailer. COMRADE X. Soviet streetcar conductor Theodore (Hedy Lamarr) is as lovely as a Botticelli angel and as forbidding as a Moscow winter. American reporter McKinley B. "Mac" Thompson is as hunky and self-confident as Clark Gable (who happens to play the role).
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Comrade X is a pseudonym for some journalist who is sending uncensored stories out about the real Soviet Union. It happens to be Clark Gable and the whole Soviet secret police apparatus is after him. But a valet at a hotel where the foreign correspondents stay played by Felix Bressart comes upon his secret.
