Too Hot to Handle
Love in action on land, sea and air!
6.0(21) 1938-09-16 107 minComedyAdventureRomance
While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he manages to hire her as his assistant. During an adventurous expedition through the jungles of South America, her opinion of him begins to change.
DirectorJack Conway
ScreenplayLaurence Stallings
ScreenplayJohn Lee Mahin
Original Music ComposerFranz Waxman
ProducerLawrence Weingarten
Cast & characters
Clark Gable
as Chris Hunter
Myrna Loy
as Alma Harding
Walter Pidgeon
as Bill Dennis
Walter Connolly
as Gabby MacArthur
Leo Carrillo
as Joselito
Johnny Hines
as Parsons
Virginia Weidler
as Hulda
Betty Ross Clarke
as Mrs. Harding
Henry Kolker
as Pearly Todd
Marjorie Main
as Miss Wayne
Gregory Gaye
as Popoff
Al Shean
as Gumpert
Willie Fung
as Willie
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Lillie Mui
as Tootsie
Patsy O'Connor
as Fake Hulda
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Ernie Alexander
as Projectionist (uncredited)
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Eddie Arden
as Cycle Messenger (uncredited)
King Baggot
as Reporter (uncredited)
Max Barwyn
as Waiter (uncredited)
Barbara Bedford
as MacArthur's Secretary (uncredited)
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Margaret Bert
as Office Worker (uncredited)
William Broadus
as Medicine Man (uncredited)
Francis X. Bushman Jr.
as Newsreel Man (uncredited)
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Bill Carey
as Elevator Boy (uncredited)
