"This Year's Laugh Riot!" 13 December 1940 Comedy, Romance 90 mins
An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
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Clark Gable as McKinley B. 'Mac' Thompson
Hedy Lamarr as Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie'
Oskar Homolka as Commissar Vasiliev
Felix Bressart as Igor Yahupitz / Vanya
Eve Arden as Jane Wilson
Sig Ruman as Emil Von Hofer
Natasha Lytess as Olga Milanova
Vladimir Sokoloff as Michael Bastakoff
Edgar Barrier as Rubick
Georges Renavent as Laszlo
Leon Belasco as Comrade Baronoff
Michael Mark as Goronoff
Alex Melesh as Effeminate Streetcar Conductor
Sven Hugo Borg as Streetcar Passenger
John Bleifer as Russian Marriage License Clerk / Russian Tank Co-Pilot
Shimen Ruskin as Russian Bridegroom
King Vidor Director
Ben Hecht Screenplay
Charles Lederer Screenplay
Joseph Ruttenberg Director of Photography
Harold F. Kress Editor
Gottfried Reinhardt Producer
Bronislau Kaper Original Music Composer
Cedric Gibbons Art Direction
Edwin B. Willis Set Decoration
Adrian Costume Design
Gile Steele Costume Design
King Vidor Producer
Leonid Raab Orchestrator
Murray Cutter Orchestrator
Karl Freund Camera Operator
A. Arnold Gillespie Special Effects
United States 13 December 1940
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Clip from the old Gable/Heddy Lamarr film Comrade-X.
Clip from the old Gable/Heddy Lamarr film Comrade-X.
"An American warms up an icy Russian streetcar conductor." Aired Saturday 24 October 2015.
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04 October 1940
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04 February 1940
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08 November 1940
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26 September 1940
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27 December 1940
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23 September 1940
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09 March 1940
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18 April 1940
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