They Met in Bombay

1941
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1h 32m

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Clark Gable and Rosalind Russell in They Met in Bombay (1941)

Liretrailer2 min 51 s

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Globetrotting Adventure Heist Adventure Comedy Crime Drama Romance War

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

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1,4 k

MA NOTE

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

Hotel Manager
(as Edward Ciannelli)

Luis Alberni

Maitre d'hotel

Rosina Galli

Carmencita

Jay Novello

Bolo

Keye Luke

Mr. Toy
(scenes deleted)

Philip Ahn

Japanese Officer
(uncredited)

Philson Ahn

Japanese Radio Man
(uncredited)

Ernie Alexander

Sailor
(uncredited)

Harry Allen

Soldier in Saloon
(uncredited)

Jimmy Aubrey

Soldier in Saloon
(uncredited)

Rama Bai

Restaurant Patron
(uncredited)

William A. Boardway

Officer
(uncredited)

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Anecdotes
At the beginning of the movie, a friend of Gerald Meldrick is making an imitation of the Star of Asia. The film doesn't say what kind of gem it is, but there is a real Star of Asia. It's a 330-carat star sapphire. It is in the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. The deep blue gem was mined in Burma (modern Myanmar) and is said to have belonged to the Maharajah of Jodhpur at one time. An even larger blue sapphire is the Star of India. The 563-carat gem is one of the largest of its kind in the world. It has a colorful history that includes being heisted in 1964 from the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The unusual stone, with stars on both sides, was recovered the following year. It was mined in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) around the year 1600, but much of its past before the 20th century is clouded.

Gaffes
When the Japanese soldiers confront Meldrick in the town square and, again, when the Japanese set an ambush on the road, they are wearing German "coal scuttle" helmets. In fact, contemporary photographs of the Japanese Army in China (e.g., during the Rape of Nanking) show Japanese soldiers with German army "coal scuttle" helmets, which, obviously, were purchased from Nazi Germany.

Citations
Gerald Meldrick: It's my duty to arrest you... but how can a man put handcuffs on moonlight?

Connexions
Featured in Clark Gable: Tall, Dark and Handsome (1996)

Bandes originales
On the Road to Mandalay
(uncredited)
Music by Oley Speaks
Lyrics by Rudyard Kipling
Played several times as part of the score

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Commentaire en vedette

7/10

Highlife, HiJinks, and High Praise

Clark Gable and Rosalind Russell had worked twice together before. Russell was a supporting player in two of Gable's previous films, China Seas and Forsaking All Others. But in They Met in Bombay they make a bright pair of competing and then cooperating thieves.

Bombay is in fact where they do meet, both of them working individually on a caper to steal a really big diamond belonging to inebriated Dutchess, Jessie Ralph. When they discover who each really is, there's some antagonism, but the police chasing them forces some cooperation which becomes more and more willing as the film progresses.

The pair eventually arrive in Hong Kong and I dare not say more, but some of Gable's con games involve him something far bigger than he can handle as the plot takes some unbelievable turns.

Gable and Russell worked well together, it's a pity that this was their only teaming on the big screen. Look also for good performances by Peter Lorre as the sly Chinese freighter captain and Reginald Owen as the British General and Matthew Boulton as the frustrated British police inspector. Also if you look fast you'll see Alan Ladd in a minute part as a British soldier in a scene with Gable while the leads are in Hong Kong.

They Met in Bombay is fast paced and very funny and still holds up remarkably well today.