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Clark Gable's first movie as an independent freelancer, away from the shackles of his 25-year stint as 'King' of MGM - after that studio finally decided (without asking him) that it could do without its moneymaking Rhett Butler and Fletcher Christian and let him go. Twentieth Century-Fox was trying out its new CinemaScope process in a variety of locations, and here Gable finds himself in Hong Kong as a smuggler, hired to locate Susan Hayward's husband Gene Barry, who's either dead or over in Red China, or both. Skilled director Edward Dmytryk makes this melodramatic tosh seem extremely exciting, and Gable and Hayward strike suitably starry sparks from each other. Michael Rennie scene-steals as British policeman Merryweather, and there's a glimpse of Samuel Goldwyn's failed star discovery, the by-then ageing beauty Anna Sten. Goodness: Gable, Hayward, Dmytryk, plus Hong Kong in CinemaScope, now that's a movie!