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
Steve Carruthers
as Coast Guard Radio Operator (uncredited)
Hal K. Dawson
as Film Cutter (uncredited)
Robert Emmett Keane
as Foreign Editor (uncredited)
Edward Peil Sr.
as Newsreel Man (uncredited)
William Royle
as Second Flyer (uncredited)
Edwin Stanley
as Second Advertising Man (uncredited)
Stanley Taylor
as Newsreel Man (uncredited)
Frank Faylen
as Assistant Dubber (uncredited)
Charles Sullivan
as Gunman (uncredited)
Gregory Gaye
as Popoff
John Hamilton
as Mr. Fairfield (uncredited)
Naomi Childers
as Office Worker (uncredited)
Nell Craig
as Todd's Secretary (uncredited)
James Flavin
as Young Reporter (uncredited)
Buddy Messinger
as Cycle Messenger (uncredited)
Cyril Ring
as Cameraman (uncredited)
Phillip Terry
as San Francisco Airport Official (uncredited)
King Baggot
as Reporter (uncredited)
Eddie Parker
as Coast Guard Attendant (uncredited)
Aileen Pringle
as Mrs. Arthur MacArthur (uncredited)
Charles Sherlock
as Cameraman (uncredited)
Harry Tyler
as Newsreel Man (uncredited)
Johnny Hines
as Parsons
DeForest Covan
as South American Fire Dancer (uncredited)
Chester Gan
as Chinese Sergeant (uncredited)
Alberto Morin
as Newsreel Man (uncredited)
Clark Gable
as Chris Hunter
Leo Carrillo
as Joselito
Barbara Bedford
as MacArthur's Secretary (uncredited)
Richard Loo
as Charlie (uncredited)
Robert Whitney
as Newsreel Man (uncredited)
Lane Chandler
as Cameraman (uncredited)
Walter Pidgeon
as Bill Dennis
Betty Ross Clarke
as Mrs. Harding
William Broadus
as Medicine Man (uncredited)
Joseph Crehan
as First Advertising Man (uncredited)
Paul Kruger
as Policeman (uncredited)
Roger Moore
as Still Cameraman (uncredited)
Josephine Whittell
as "Fake" Mrs. Harding (uncredited)
Henry Kolker
as Pearly Todd
Patsy O'Connor
as Fake Hulda
Eddie Dunn
as Newsreel Man (uncredited)
Selmer Jackson
as Coast Guard Captain (uncredited)
Max Barwyn
as Waiter (uncredited)
Willie Fung
as Willie
Drew Demorest
as Still Cameraman (uncredited)
Jack Richardson
as Reporter (uncredited)
Myrna Loy
as Alma Harding
Walter Connolly
as Gabby MacArthur
Francis X. Bushman Jr.
as Newsreel Man (uncredited)
Walter Miller
as First Flyer (uncredited)
Virginia Weidler
as Hulda
Marjorie Main
as Miss Wayne
John Dilson
as Film Developing Laboratory Foreman (uncredited)
William R. Dunn
as Native Chief (uncredited)
Chris-Pin Martin
as Pedro (uncredited)
Philo McCullough
as Cameraman (uncredited)
Martin Wilkins
as Native Guide (uncredited)
Natalie Garson
as Stewardess (uncredited)
Mahlon Hamilton
as Reporter (uncredited)
George Lynn
as Harry Harding (uncredited)
Malcolm 'Bud' McTaggart
as Cycle Messenger (uncredited)
Lee Phelps
as Policeman (uncredited)
Blue Washington
as Native (uncredited)
Al Shean
as Gumpert
Buster Slaven
as Second Newsboy (uncredited)
Ray Walker
as Wally, Sound Mixer (uncredited)
George Webb
as Mr. Rodney, Lawyer (uncredited)
Crew
Franz Waxman
Original Music Composer
Cedric Gibbons
Production Design
Buster Keaton
Creative Consultant
Harold Rosson
Director of Photography
John Lee Mahin
Screenplay
Douglas Shearer
Recording Supervision
Richard Rosson
Second Unit Director
Jack Conway
Director
Edwin B. Willis
Assistant Production Design
A. Arnold Gillespie
Special Effects
Joseph M. Newman
Assistant Director