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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.
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
With a nod to Ninotchka (1939), Comrade X (1940) casts Hedy Lamarr as a Moscow streetcar driver who is a devout Communist, and Clark Gable as an American reporter who "liberates" her. Pressured into an agreement to help sneak Lamarr out of Russia, Gable pretends to be a Communist himself and assures her that once in America they can fight for ...
- King Vidor, Tom Andre
- Clark Gable
Journalist McKinley "Mac" Thompson (Clark Gable) is on assignment in pre-World War II Moscow and secretly files uncensored stories critical of the Stalinist government with an American newspaper.
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- King Vidor
- Romance, Comedy
- Clark Gable
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by Emily Madison. “Comrade X” is a Hollywood film directed by King Vidor and stars Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr. The story revolves around an American journalist, McKinley B. Thompson (played by Gable), who is working in Russia during the rule of Joseph Stalin.
The film is set in 1940, shortly after the United States recognized the Soviet Union, and just before Russia became a valued ally in the war against Hitler. In this era of American ambivalence towards Russia, an American reporter is smuggling news out of Russia under the nom de plume 'Comrade X.'
