Too Hot to Handle

Too Hot to Handle (1938)

Love in action on land, sea and air!

While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he manages to hire her as his assistant. During an adventurous expedition through the jungles of South America, her opinion of him begins to change.

Date of release
1938-09-16
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (22)
Runtime
1h 47m
Genres
Comedy, Adventure, Romance
Director
Jack Conway

Casting

Interesting facts

Too Hot to Handle, also known as Let 'Em All Talk, is a 1938 comedy-drama directed by Jack Conway and starring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, and Walter Pidgeon. The plot concerns a newsreel reporter, the female aviator he is attracted to and his fierce competitor. Many of the comedy gags were devised by an uncredited Buster Keaton.

Production

Principal photography with the pre-production title of the Let 'Em All Talk took place from May 9 to late August 1938. with the primary location in the United States being Sherwood Forest, California. Additional sequences were shot by Richard Rosson, the film's second unit director and the brother of cameraman Harold Rosson, and Clyde De Vinna in Dutch Guiana.

During pre-production, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Spencer Tracy was to star in the film along with Margaret Sullavan and George Peter Lynn; however, these roles were assigned to others, with Gable and Loy repeating their romantic pairing that had been seen in Test Pilot (1938). Too Hot to Handle was the sixth and final Gable-Loy feature.

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