Too Hot to Handle
Too Hot to Handle
Release: 1938-09-16
·Runtime: 107m
·★ 5.8
Comedy
Adventure
Romance
While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he manages to hire her as his assistant. During an adventurous expedition through the jungles of South America, her opinion of him begins to change.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Loew's Incorporated
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Hal K. Dawson
as Film Cutter (uncredited)
Natalie Garson
as Stewardess (uncredited)
Walter Miller
as First Flyer (uncredited)
Harry Tyler
as Newsreel Man (uncredited)
Johnny Hines
as Parsons
Joseph Crehan
as First Advertising Man (uncredited)
Selmer Jackson
as Coast Guard Captain (uncredited)
Stanley Taylor
as Newsreel Man (uncredited)
George Webb
as Mr. Rodney, Lawyer (uncredited)
Walter Pidgeon
as Bill Dennis
Walter Connolly
as Gabby MacArthur
Leo Carrillo
as Joselito
Virginia Weidler
as Hulda
Henry Kolker
as Pearly Todd
Chester Gan
as Chinese Sergeant (uncredited)
Buster Slaven
as Second Newsboy (uncredited)
Marjorie Main
as Miss Wayne
Edwin Stanley
as Second Advertising Man (uncredited)
Charles Sullivan
as Gunman (uncredited)
Phillip Terry
as San Francisco Airport Official (uncredited)
Naomi Childers
as Office Worker (uncredited)
Nell Craig
as Todd's Secretary (uncredited)
Ray Walker
as Wally, Sound Mixer (uncredited)
Lane Chandler
as Cameraman (uncredited)
Eddie Parker
as Coast Guard Attendant (uncredited)
Edward Peil Sr.
as Newsreel Man (uncredited)
Aileen Pringle
as Mrs. Arthur MacArthur (uncredited)
Barbara Bedford
as MacArthur's Secretary (uncredited)
Drew Demorest
as Still Cameraman (uncredited)
Eddie Dunn
as Newsreel Man (uncredited)
Buddy Messinger
as Cycle Messenger (uncredited)
Lee Phelps
as Policeman (uncredited)
DeForest Covan
as South American Fire Dancer (uncredited)
Robert Emmett Keane
as Foreign Editor (uncredited)
Betty Ross Clarke
as Mrs. Harding
Jack Richardson
as Reporter (uncredited)
Martin Wilkins
as Native Guide (uncredited)
John Hamilton
as Mr. Fairfield (uncredited)
Clark Gable
as Chris Hunter
Paul Kruger
as Policeman (uncredited)
Chris-Pin Martin
as Pedro (uncredited)
Robert Whitney
as Newsreel Man (uncredited)
William Broadus
as Medicine Man (uncredited)
William R. Dunn
as Native Chief (uncredited)
Richard Loo
as Charlie (uncredited)
Malcolm 'Bud' McTaggart
as Cycle Messenger (uncredited)
Cyril Ring
as Cameraman (uncredited)
Myrna Loy
as Alma Harding
Max Barwyn
as Waiter (uncredited)
John Dilson
as Film Developing Laboratory Foreman (uncredited)
George Lynn
as Harry Harding (uncredited)
Charles Sherlock
as Cameraman (uncredited)
Blue Washington
as Native (uncredited)
Gregory Gaye
as Popoff
Al Shean
as Gumpert
Patsy O'Connor
as Fake Hulda
Roger Moore
as Still Cameraman (uncredited)
Alberto Morin
as Newsreel Man (uncredited)
Josephine Whittell
as "Fake" Mrs. Harding (uncredited)
King Baggot
as Reporter (uncredited)
Francis X. Bushman Jr.
as Newsreel Man (uncredited)
Frank Faylen
as Assistant Dubber (uncredited)
James Flavin
as Young Reporter (uncredited)
Mahlon Hamilton
as Reporter (uncredited)
Philo McCullough
as Cameraman (uncredited)
Willie Fung
as Willie
Steve Carruthers
as Coast Guard Radio Operator (uncredited)
William Royle
as Second Flyer (uncredited)
Crew
John Lee Mahin
Screenplay
Franz Waxman
Original Music Composer
Harold Rosson
Director of Photography
Cedric Gibbons
Production Design
A. Arnold Gillespie
Special Effects
Joseph M. Newman
Assistant Director
Douglas Shearer
Recording Supervision
Richard Rosson
Second Unit Director
Buster Keaton
Creative Consultant
Jack Conway
Director
Edwin B. Willis
Assistant Production Design