Comrade X

Louis B. Mayer of MGM pushed along the production of COMRADE X, believing it would have great box office appeal since it was a spinoff of NINOTCHKA. But the amusing farce just missed, even though Gable and the sultry Lamarr gave it their all. Gable is an American newsman in Moscow who has been smuggling out stories embarrassing the regime. Bressart, a porter at Gable's hotel, discovers the newsman's ploy and blackmails him into smuggling Lamarr, the porter's daughter, out of Russia. Bressart tells him that Lamarr is being investigated because she is a pure Communist and that is suspect in Russia. Gable agrees to smuggle her out but finds his hands full when Lamarr,...