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Comrade X

  • 1940
  • Approved
  • 1 Std. 44 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
6,6/10
1926
IHRE BEWERTUNG
Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr in Comrade X (1940)
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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuAn American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.

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    • King Vidor
  • Drehbuch
    • Ben Hecht
    • Charles Lederer
    • Walter Reisch
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Clark Gable
    • Hedy Lamarr
    • Oscar Homolka
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
  • IMDb-BEWERTUNG
    6,6/10
    1926
    IHRE BEWERTUNG
    • Regie
      • King Vidor
    • Drehbuch
      • Ben Hecht
      • Charles Lederer
      • Walter Reisch
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Clark Gable
      • Hedy Lamarr
      • Oscar Homolka
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    • 9Kritische Rezensionen
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
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    • Für 1 Oscar nominiert
      • 1 Nominierung insgesamt

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    Clark Gable
    Clark Gable
    • McKinley B. Thompson
    Hedy Lamarr
    Hedy Lamarr
    • Theodore
    Oscar Homolka
    Oscar Homolka
    • Vasiliev
    Felix Bressart
    Felix Bressart
    • Vanya
    Eve Arden
    Eve Arden
    • Jane Wilson
    Sig Ruman
    Sig Ruman
    • Emil Von Hofer
    • (as Sig Rumann)
    Natasha Lytess
    • Olga
    Vladimir Sokoloff
    Vladimir Sokoloff
    • Michael Bastakoff
    Edgar Barrier
    Edgar Barrier
    • Rubick
    Georges Renavent
    Georges Renavent
    • Laszlo
    • (as George Renevant)
    Mikhail Rasumny
    Mikhail Rasumny
    • Russian Officer
    Ed Agresti
    • Press Correspondent
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Alexander Asro
    • Russian Waiter
    • (Nicht genannt)
    William Bailey
    William Bailey
    • Press Correspondent
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Al Bain
    Al Bain
    • Marriage Bureau Customer
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Lici Balla
    • Russian Woman
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Leon Belasco
    Leon Belasco
    • Comrade Baronoff - Hotel Manager
    • (Nicht genannt)
    John Bleifer
    John Bleifer
    • Russian Marriage License Clerk
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      • King Vidor
    • Drehbuch
      • Ben Hecht
      • Charles Lederer
      • Walter Reisch
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    9jimm-27

    American reporter falls for Communist in 1940 Russia

    The film fascinates because it was made in 1940, just when WWII was getting started. Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia had just divided Poland between them and neither Nazis nor Communists much admired by most Americans. Our hero, played by Clark Gable, is forced by the Soviets to share his hotel room with a Nazi journalist. The Nazi is a caricature, as are the Soviets, who are shown ordering assassinations a¿of anyone they dislike. At one point the Gable character creates a diversion by shouting out that Germany has just invaded Russia. He is, of course, shouting a year too soon, but the reaction is interesting. The plot itself is foolish, but the glimpse into the past, with references to the Brooklyn Dodgers murdering the Reds (of Cincinatti) makes the movie great fun.
    7ilprofessore-1

    Lamarr, a superb comedian

    Who would have guessed that the usually wooden but dazzlingly beautiful Hedy Lamarr could be so delightfully funny, adorable and charming as she is in this Ninotchka role. It's a pity that she was rarely --if ever again-- given another opportunity to play this sort of anything-goes screwball comedy. Hedy here is as real and believable as Carole Lombard at her best. The script written by Ben Hecht ("Nothing Sacred"), Charlie Lederer ("The Front Page" screenplay) and the uncredited Herman Mankiewicz ("Citizen Kane") is a bizarre hard-boiled political satire ending with a lengthy and totally absurd slapstick Russian tank chase through the woods and across the river into Rumania. It looks as if it came straight out of a Max Sennett movie. Gable is his usual tough and handsome self, wonderfully adept with the throw-away gags he is given. The rest of the cast is rounded out with some of the best European character actors then living in Hollywood --the Germans Sig Ruman, Felix Bressart and the Viennese Oskar Homoloka—- all playing Russians and Germans. As an added bonus there is the first on-screen appearance by the rarely seen Berlin-born actress, Natasha Lytess ("Olga"), best remembered now as Marilyn Monroe's first acting coach way before her Lee Strasberg days.
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    Purging as we go

    With the success MGM had with Ninotchka another lampooning of the Soviet Union seemed a natural. So the following year while the Hitler-Stalin pact was still active, MGM came up with Comrade X.

    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. He offers a deal to Gable, he won't turn him in if Gable convinces Bressart's daughter Hedy Lamarr to leave the Soviet Union with him and come to America.

    Easier said than done because Lamarr is as committed a Communist as Greta Garbo was in Ninotchka. So like Melvyn Douglas in Ninotchka, Gable's got his work cut out for him.

    Comrade X's humor is a little more broad than Ninotchka's was. It even got a few good knocks in on Nazi Germany with Sig Ruman playing a German correspondent. The humor about the Soviets concerns what a dangerous thing it was to rise in the ranks of the party. Remember this was also the time of Stalin purging all kinds of people out of the party. Something that didn't stop until Hitler broke the non-aggression pact in 1941.

    And Hedy Lamarr is sure no Garbo, but she acquits herself nicely in the role of the fuzzy headed idealist.

    Gable, Lamarr, and Bressart get caught up in the internal politics of the Soviet Union and have to flee the country. What happens to them is the balance of the film and it is hilarious.

    One of the best films done by both of the stars. Grand comedy.
    bruno-32

    hilarious

    I thought the chemistry between Hedy and Clark were great. She really came off as a very good commedienne. I thought the lines were real clever and that ending...wow...all those tanks. I enjoyed this movie more than the Ninotchka.
    6Doylenf

    Amusing comedy with overtones of "Ninotchka"...

    CLARK GABLE and HEDY LAMARR share the screen in a romantic comedy along the lines of "Ninotchka", which made such a success for Greta Garbo. Obviously, Louis B. Mayer hoped COMRADE X would do for Hedy what the other film did for Garbo's image--and to some extent, it did.

    It's not as sophisticated and witty as the Garbo film, but Hedy plays a dedicated Soviet woman who thinks that an American that she is attracted to (CLARK GABLE) shares the same philosophy. FELIX BRESSART is her scatterbrained father, EVE ARDEN is an American newspaper woman and SIG RUMAN is a loyal Nazi foreign correspondent in Russia who is just as confused as everyone else as to the identity of "Comrade X".

    It's a good role for Hedy, playing her role very much the way Cyd Charisse played the Russian gal in "Silk Stockings", and with a comic flair that she seldom exhibited in any of her MGM films, even the so-called comedies. Gable is more or less himself as the cynical newspaper man who ends up taking his bride (Lamarr) to America after they've had a few escapades that have the Soviet authorities chasing them all over the hillsides in tanks--the film's most amusing moments.

    One of the funniest performances comes from NATASHA LYTESS, as Olga, a secretary who tells Gable she's a spy. Her drunken antics are a highlight (she can't see a thing without her glasses). Lytess was Marilyn Monroe's acting coach for several years, the superstar being dependent on her for her every move during her early films at Fox.

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      At the time this film was released in 1940, World War II had already begun in Europe, but the Soviet Union still had a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany. In the film, Mac is able to fool a character by pretending to hear news that Germany has broken the pact and launched an invasion of the USSR. That's exactly what happened the very next year when Germany launched Operation Barbarossa in summer 1941.
    • Patzer
      The script makes reference to the Soviet law that a person could divorce his or her spouse simply by sending them a postcard announcing that the marriage was over. But in 1936, four years before this film was made, Stalin had repealed that law when he rewrote the Russian constitution and made divorces considerably harder to get.
    • Zitate

      Vanya: The communists have ideas. But they found out you can't run a government with everybody going around having ideas. So what is happening, the communists are being executed so that Communism should succeed.

    • Crazy Credits
      "RUSSIA. The never never land of steppes, samovars and spies -- beards, bears, bombs and borscht - where almost anything can happen - and usually does. "
    • Verbindungen
      Featured in The Miracle of Sound (1940)
    • Soundtracks
      Funiculi, Funicula
      (1880) (uncredited)

      Lyrics by Peppino Turco

      Music by Luigi Denza

      Sung a cappella with modified lyrics by Clark Gable

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      • 1954 (Westdeutschland)
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      • Vereinigte Staaten
    • Sprache
      • Englisch
    • Auch bekannt als
      • Madame X
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      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, Kalifornien, USA(Studio)
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      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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