One of the most entertaining films of Clark Gable's career, and in its patchwork of styles and genres, it's also one of his strangest. Based on the careers of writers Len Hammond and Laurence Stallings with Movietone news, it begins as a witty satire of the newsreel business before turning into an adventure-romance-comedy that includes the memorable sight of Gable escaping from a village in the jungles of Brazil wearing the head of a large ceremonial chicken. A creative newsman covering the Sino-Japanese War, Chris Hunter (Gable) is known for his skill at manufacturing bogus news during unproductive lulls in the fighting. After he and his main rival in the newsreel business, Bill Dennis (Walter Pidgeon), altruistically decide to help beautiful aviatrix Alma Harding (Myrna Loy) find her lost brother, the film takes on a slightly surreal tone as her personal soap opera clashes with the cynical comedy of the newshounds' competition. By the time they all end up in South America, the film has shifted into slapstick mode, with the shamanistic Gable leading what are clearly backlot "natives" in some esoteric rituals. While the stolid Pidgeon is somewhat miscast, Gable is perfect here, with the comic timing and knack for throwing away lines that he rarely had a chance to use. Loy seems to be acting in a different movie altogether, which just adds to the overall sense of amiable delirium.