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Romantic drama combines with humor, starpower combines with lavish spectacle and the walls come tumbling down! This Academy Award?-winning* extravanganza's street-splitting, brick-cascading, fire-raging recreation of the cataclysmic earthquake remains "one of the greatest action sequences in the history of the cinema, rivalling the chariot race in both Ben-Hurs" (Adrian Turner, Time Out Film Guide).
Clark Gable plays rakish Barbary Coast kingpin Blackie Norton. Jeanette MacDonald portrays a singer torn by her love for Blackie and her need to succeed among the operagoing elite. Earning the first of nine career Best Actor Oscar? nominations,* Spencer Tracy is a priest who supplements spiritual advice with a mean right
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hook. He urges Blackie to change. But if love and religion can't reform Blackie, Mother Nature will.
Directed by W.S. Van Dyke. Starring Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy.
Color: Color
# of Discs: 1
Country of Origin: USA
Original Languages: English
Subtitled Languages: English, French
Closed Captioned Languages: English
Full Frame 1.37
Audio: Mono 1.0
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