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Very disappointing...

Captivating movie !

Absolutely brilliant

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

This movie has a great cast, headlined by Greer Garson and Clark Gable, and including Thomas Mitchell and Joan Blondell. The director, Victor Fleming, had given us such masterpieces as the Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, and Captains Courageous. How then could such a group make such a truly awful movie? Well, to begin with, the script is awful almost past belief. It meanders from here to there, provides no decent motivations for the characters, who are at best two-dimensional caricatures. These characters are not interesting or even likable. And some of them disappear for long stretches of time.But everything is wrong here. Gable's character is thoroughly despicable. It's one thing to be a macho sort. Gable had brought that off, in spades, with Rhett Butler. But this sailor is both offensive and uninteresting.So then, why does Garson fall for him, and so quickly? There is no indication.Everything is wrong with this script. Garson and especially Gable try to salvage it, but it's a truly lost cause.Don't waste your time on this. Why MGM plunked its major stars into a truly lost cause I cannot guess.

Adventure (1945)Surely the title is a huge pun, or a huge mistake. This is an adventure of a man who is no longer looking for the high seas and wartime survival, but the adventure of love with a woman who is not, at fist his type. It's not as bad as some of the reviews suggest, but there is something steady and normal and incipient about it all. While featuring Clark Gable in the lead, and with the same director as Gone with the Wind a few years earlier, there is something stiff about it all, even the humor and fun. Greer Garson is the "serious" woman, someone who has to force herself to have fun, and Joan Blondell is the racy one, out for fun above all else. And if Gable seems suited to the crazy woman, he's clearly also set to be tamed by the other.That's pretty much the adventure, after a few wild scenes from kicking down the door in Chile to getting torpedoed by the Japanese. Garson can be impressive in her cultured way, but here she is hot and cold, on and off. It's partly her speeches are more words than meaning. There's nothing more boring than people talking about being exciting. If in one scene you'll be laughing as Gable and Garson trap some chickens, in the next you'll be forced to think deep thoughts about true adventure and true meaning—when in fact the meaning was in the chicken scene.Blondell never quite gets her due in many of her movies because she plays against (or in contrast to) the leading female who is more grand, or more beautiful, or just more star powered than she is. Too bad. She's fun but she also has fabulous screen presence. That, to me, is what matters most (often) in this era.The movie is too long in parts, and the theme wears thin after while. In the end it's about a sailor's life or the landlubber's, the first filled with freedom, the second with a home and a family. It's 1945, the soldiers are coming home—guess which side wins?

"Adventure" is a confusing movie;it was Greer Garson's first important flop after the triumphs of "Mrs Minniver" and " Madame Curie" and it's easy to see why.If she is credible as an earnest librarian ,it takes a lot of imagination to believe in her character in the scenes where she dances with the first to come .I think she was miscast and Claudette Colbert would have been a better choice."Adventure ",despite its title ,in only an adventures movie .Now dramatic (there are two deaths all the same!) ,now comic (the hens episode) Victor Fleming seems to hesitate as to which road to take.He even copies himself :the tracking out ,with the couple near the big tree at sunset recalls "gone with the wind" !Neither Gable nor Garson are really convincing.The stand out is ,IMHO,Thomas Mitchell -Scarlett's father!- as Mudge ,the sailor who lost his soul and regained it on a starry night after seeing a shooting star ,probably the most beautiful scene of the film.Too bad young Ramon should disappear so early in the movie :this character who asks a couldn't-care-less Gable if the ship was blessed ("I bless it every moment of the day "was the sailor's answer)gives in the first sequences a Christian feel (sometimes recalling Borzage's "strange cargo" ) which would emerge again in the scene of the death of Mudge and in the last sequences .At a running time of two hours plus ,it sometimes drags on.Some good scenes and a certain sense of humor help.

Those were alternate tag lines that MGM offered to Greer Garson when she complained about "Gable's back and Garson's got him".This really is a wonderful movie, but perhaps a bit hard to understand after only one viewing. It certainly wasn't what the public was expecting in 1945/6. After seeing it several times I find it just gets better and better.Gable chews up scenery, knocks down doors, punches a few guys, and kisses some beautiful women, all because he is fed up with life and with the sorry state of mankind. When he meets Greer, he backs her up against a library shelf to intimidate her but she doesn't budge. He can't understand why this "tomato" doesn't fall for his rough charm the way most women do. It takes him the whole movie to realize that Greer is exactly what he's been looking for all along.Greer is first repulsed by Gable, then fascinated, then jealous of Joan Blondell, eventually infatuated with him, and finally resigned to losing him to the sea and to his quest for the elusive quality that he calls "it". His pal Thomas Mitchell realizes that she is just what Gable needs.Garson and Gable are great together. If you're a fan of either, then you'll need to see this movie.And you'll learn neat stuff like how to mesmerize a chicken and how inexpensive groceries were in 1945.You'll even get to see Greer imitating a rooster. It's almost as good as her sea lion imitation in "Julia Misbehaves".