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Title: Mis-Adventure, more like.
Review: Clark Gable was sure lucky that this mess of a movie didn't end his career, being that it was his first venture after returning from active duty in WWII. The main trouble with the movie is his attitude; for some reason, Metro tried to revive the style of the younger carefree Gable in this film, the sort of fellow he was in "It Happened One Night"--even Metro's memory was faulty, because that persona had already been replaced by the mature man of 1939' "Gone with the Wind". Here, he's just too old and had been through too much in real life (the war and the earlier death of his wife Carole Lomabard) to cavort around like he does in the movie, and with Greer Garson no less! I don't understand why the studio, having taken such pains to shape her image as a gentlewoman, had her buffooning around either. Check out the better post-war Gable of "Homecoming" and "The Hucksters", and leave "Adventure" on the shelf.
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