Certificate: Passed
In calm seas, following a typhoon in which the ship suffered damage to its cargo and the deaths of some crew, the Kin Lung is boarded by Malay pirates, as McArdle expected and with whom he is in alliance.
China Seas was one of the big hits of the Thirties, teaming Gable and Harlow together for the third time in three years, the other films being Red Dust and Hold Your Man. With Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone.
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He loves her, her agent Ned Riley loves her. China Seas was one of the big hits of the Thirties, teaming Gable and Harlow together for the third time in three years, the other films being Red Dust and Hold Your Man. The wife of a publishing executive mistakenly believes that her husband's relationship with his attractive secretary is more than professional.
When earthy Dolly Portland is rejected by Captain Gaskell in favor of a socialite, she aids Jamesy McCardle, in league with Malay pirates, in his plot to seize his ship. After a temporary takeover of the ship by gold-seeking Asian pirates, Captain Gaskell must deal with the fact that Dolly and her drinking pal, Jamesey MacArdle, are implicated in the crime.
After winning a stud farm in lieu of gambling debts, bookie Duke Bradley turns an eye to the daughter of the now deceased gambler and her millionaire fiancée. Sexpot film star Lola Burns seeks a new image and tries marrying a marquis and adopting a baby - all sorts of schemes which go awry. By 1931 Thalberg had decided on the one storyline and spent the next four years working on a script with two dozen writers, half a dozen directors and three supervisors. Comedy Gable is the gruff, barking sea captain, Harlow the crass woman with a past who loves him. Gable is the gruff, barking sea captain, Harlow the crass woman with a past who loves him. Certificate: Passed 19 of 20 people found this review helpful. Fast, free delivery. Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick ruthlessly goes after organized crime and is prepared to use brutal and violent methods to fight it.
He convinces the sheriff to give him a job watching the house and furniture of widow Crystal Wetherby without knowing she is... Menu. It is still a very entertaining film, kind of a Red Dust on the South China Sea. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Gaskell has replaced with sand, they torture Capt. There's not another actor, alive or dead, who could make that line work, but Harlow finds both the obvious comedy and the hidden pathos in it. "When I want you to sound off, Golden Bell, I'll pull your rope"--Harlow to Yu-Lan in "China Seas." They decide to marry. A woman is sent to a reformatory when her con artist lover flees after killing a man during a botched blackmail scheme.
Unable to find gold in the ships strongbox, which Capt. When a socialite sues a big paper for libel, the editor responsible calls in the help of his ignored fiancée and a former employee to frame her and make the false story seem true.
The owner of a rubber plantation becomes involved with the new wife of one of his employees. Certificate: Passed
Raymond Dabney returns to his family after trouble with the law. Movies. As the film closes Capt. Certificate: Passed Comedy Get unlimited DVD Movies & TV Shows delivered to your door with no late fees, ever. Certificate: Passed Drama Was this review helpful to you? Dynamic Alan Gaskell captains a ship bound from Hong Kong to Singapore.
Certificate: Passed Comedy
Gaskell tries to turn over a new leaf from his hard-drinking lifestyle after becoming re-attached to a refined high class English lady, Sybil Barclay. Gaskell reveals the gold was safe all along, hidden inside the ship's cargo (the toolbox of a steamroller stowed on deck). It is still a very entertaining film, kind of a Red Dust on the South China Sea. Drama When earthy Dolly Portland is rejected by Captain Gaskell in favor of a socialite, she aids Jamesy McCardle, in league with Malay pirates, in his plot to seize his ship. Drama One month free trial! China Seas (1935) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. When the Kin Lung docks in Singapore, Captain Gaskell, still limping due to his torture, settles that his love for Sybil is superficial.
Believing a German spy has killed her new husband, a struggling chorus girl flees to Paris where she meets and marries a World War I pilot, whose carefree ways brings about unexpected results.