China Seas (film)

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China Seas
Promotional movie poster for the film
Directed by	Tay Garnett
Produced by	Irving Thalberg Albert Lewin
Written by	Crobie Garstin (book) James Kevin McGuinness Jules Furthman
Starring	Clark Gable Jean Harlow Wallace Beery Lewis Stone Rosalind Russell Robert Benchley
Music by	Herbert Stothart
Cinematography	Ray June
Editing by	William LeVanway
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	August 9, 1935 (premiere) August 16, 1935 (wide release) January 19, 1936 January 24, 1936
Running time	87 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
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China Seas is a 1935 adventure film starring Clark Gable as a brave sea captain, Jean Harlow as an onboard floozy, and Wallace Beery as an extremely suspicious-looking character. The oceangoing epic also features Lewis Stone and Rosalind Russell, while humorist Robert Benchley memorably portrays a character reeling drunk from one end of the film to the other.

The lavish MGM epic was written by James Kevin McGuinness and Jules Furthman from the book by Crosbie Garstin, and directed by Tay Garnett. This is one of the very few sound films with Beery in which he didn't receive top billing.