Too Hot To Handle

Fast-paced action picture that takes great liberties with the way it really is in the world of newsreel photographers. Gable and Loy were already the top male and female stars of Hollywood's national polls and had just come off a far superior picture, TEST PILOT, but the sizzle from that carried over, and this one made more money than it may have deserved. Loy is an Amelia Earhart-type aviatrix whose brother, Hines, has been lost in the dense Amazon jungles of the South American interior. She appeals to rival newsreel men Gable and Pidgeon to help her locate Hines, who has been missing for about a year. Both agree for two reasons: it's a good story, and Loy is so a...