Adventure

This was Gable's first film after being mustered out of the Air Force following WW II (where he flew many missions over Germany and was decorated for heroism), and MGM ballyhooed its greatest star with an enormous publicity campaign, proclaiming: "Gable's back and Garson's got him!" The role was tailor-made, that of a roughneck seaman who had been around the world and had the traditional girl in every port, but never a girl like Garson, a reserved, beautiful librarian whom he meets in a San Francisco library when trying to look up a history of the human soul for his friend and shipmate, Mitchell, superbly playing a superstitious Irishman who believes his soul "went...