THEY MET IN BOMBAY
(M-G-M)
[N which Clark Gable wins the V.C. and M-G-M take the bun for the most absurd story of 1941. Not that there’s
anything wrong with Clark Gable’s winning the V.C.-except that he’s a hunted jewel thief (cashiered from a Canadian regiment), who lives in sin
with Rosalind Russell, and steals one of His Majesty’s uniforms for the grossly improper purpose of robbing a Chinese merchant. But then, as the film is careful to point out, "it’s the deed that counts and not the man." The deed which wins Mr. Jewel-Thief Gable the British Army’s most coveted award ("by arrangement with the War Office") comes about when M-G-M, anticipating events by a few months, stage a skirmish between British and Japanese troops outside Hong Kong, and Gable in his stolen uniform ‘inadvertently finds himself in the thick of it. Having silenced severat machineguns single-handed, he marches off to prison to expiate his crimes with the V.C. pinned to his manly breast and a fatuous smile on his rugged face. If a regiment of British soldiers were to invade Hollywood and level it to the ground, I should, in my present mood, be inclined to regard it as a justifiable reprisal under extreme provocation.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/NZLIST19420109.2.19.1.4
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 133, 9 January 1942, Page 11
Word count
Tapeke kupu
207THEY MET IN BOMBAY New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 133, 9 January 1942, Page 11
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Material in this publication is protected by copyright.
Are Media Limited has granted permission to the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa to develop and maintain this content online. You can search, browse, print and download for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Are Media Limited for any other use.
Copyright in the work University Entrance by Janet Frame (credited as J.F., 22 March 1946, page 18), is owned by the Janet Frame Literary Trust. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this article and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the New Zealand Listener. You can search, browse, and print this article for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from the Janet Frame Literary Trust for any other use.
Copyright in the Denis Glover serial Hot Water Sailor published in 1959 is owned by Pia Glover. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this serial and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the Listener. You can search, browse, and print this serial for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Pia Glover for any other use.
Log in