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In 1940, a foreign reporter, “Comrade X”, is bypassing censors and sending out critical stories about the Soviet Union. Commissar Vasiliev, chief of the secret police, announces that he has taken over the censorship of the press.
Comrade X: Directed by King Vidor. With Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Oscar Homolka, Felix Bressart. An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
- (1.8K)
- Comedy, Romance
- King Vidor
- 1940-12-13
With a nod to Ninotchka (1939), Comrade X (1940) casts Hedy Lamarr as a Moscow streetcar driver who is a devout Communist, and Clark Gable as an American reporter who "liberates" her. Pressured into an agreement to help sneak Lamarr out of Russia, Gable pretends to be a Communist himself and assures her that once in America they can fight for ...
- King Vidor, Tom Andre
- Clark Gable
Hotel valet Vanya (Felix Bressart) discovers his true identity and blackmails him into spiriting his beloved daughter, a Communist streetcar driver who...
- (23)
- King Vidor
- Romance, Comedy
- Clark Gable
The story revolves around an American journalist, McKinley B. Thompson (played by Gable), who is working in Russia during the rule of Joseph Stalin. He secretly writes critical articles about the Soviet regime under the pen name Comrade X.
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In this era of American ambivalence towards Russia, an American reporter is smuggling news out of Russia under the nom de plume 'Comrade X.' A hotel employee discovers his identity and blackmails him into taking the employee's beautiful pro-communist daughter out of the country.
