Timing is everything (Comrade X)

November 7, 2016

Just happened to turn on the TV to Turner Classic Movie channel. Comrade X, a 1940 romantic comedy starring Clark Gable and Hedy Lamar, was on at this scene:

Gable’s character, an American journalist visiting Russia, is arguing about communism with Lamar, a local streetcar conductor. She tries to tell him how bad America is, recounting a story about 10 million people who died there over the winter and there weren’t enough others to bury them. “We don’t bury the bodies, Gable says, “We burn them.”

Then he asks “Ever hear of the Brooklyn Dodgers? They get murdered every day.” When Lamar asks the reason, he replies “For making little errors.”

You can read the NY Times review from Dec. 26, 1940 here.

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