11/11/2011

Clark Gable Realness

Robert Donat seems to be the British answer to Clark Gable's Peter Warne (It Happened One Night) in The 39 Steps, tweed suit and all. 39 Steps starts out as a fairly serious film with a few wisecracks and ends up being downright screwball, albeit with a large helping of Hitchcock's "wrongfully accused" sauce. Consider me charmed.

Anyway, here's an excuse to compare some great mustaches of the 1930s from both Donat and Gable.

Donat ended up surprisingly sassy in The 39 Steps playing against Madeleine Carroll.


Um, the most serious picture I have of Gable and Colbert.


This has got to be the least obnoxious "hand-cuffed together" story line I've ever seen. Was this one of the first?


But I think It Happened One Night wins out in the end since you get to see these two spar for the better part of the movie, what with the donut dunking and all.

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  1. allisonNovember 13, 2011 at 5:42 PM

    It's a good day when you're scrolling through your google reader and BAM-there's Clark Gable!

    Thank you thank you thank you for that :)

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  2. MargauxNovember 26, 2011 at 10:15 PM

    Wonderful analysis. haha I like 30s Hitchcock movies, The 39 Steps is one of the best, I think.

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