Actor: Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy, Jack Holt, Jessie Ralph
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Genre: Drama
Year: 1936
Studio: Warner Archives
Length: 115
Released: 02/16/21
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Format: Blu-ray
Misc/Special Features: NTSC, Subtitled
Language: English
Subtitles : yes
DESCRIPTION:
Romantic drama combines with humor, star power combines with lavish spectacle, and the walls come tumbling down! This Academy Award -winning extravanganza's street-splitting, brick-cascading, fire-raging re-creation of the cataclysmic earthquake remains "one of the greatest action sequences in the history of the cinema, rivalling the chariot race in both Ben-Hurs" (Adrian Turner, Time Out Film Guide). Clark Gable plays rakish Barbary Coast kingpin Blackie Norton. Jeanette MacDonald portrays a singer torn by her love for Blackie and her need to succeed among the operagoing elite. Earning the first of nine career Best Actor Oscar nominations, Spencer Tracy is a priest who supplements spiritual advice with a mean right hook. He urges Blackie to change. But if love and religion can't reform Blackie, Mother Nature will.
