Adventure (1945)


Adventure
Release Date28 December 1945
Budget$4,000,000
TaglineGable's Back ! And Garson's Got Him ! What A Battling Sizzling Love Team !
GenreDrama, Romance, Comedy
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish
Sound MixMono
ColorBlack and White
Film TypeFeature
Film ClassRomantic Drama
ThemesCrumbling Marriages
TonesPoignant
TagsForbidden Love, Library, Love, Pregnancy, Romance

Adventure is a 1945 film, based on the novel The Anointed by Clyde Brion Davis. Clark Gable and Greer Garson star as a sailor and a librarian. It was Gable's first postwar film and the tagline repeated in the movie's famous trailer was "Gable's back and Garson's got him!" It was directed by Victor Fleming, one of Gable's favorite directors.


Cast and Crew


Cast

Harry Patterson

Emily Sears

Helen Melohn

Tom Tully
Gus

Model T

Lina Romay
Maria

Old Ramon Estado

Dr. Ashlon

Tito Renaldo
Young Ramon Estado

Bit part

Landlady

Preacher

Garry Owen
Jabbo

Harry Wilson
Big mug

Mr. Ludlow

Mrs. Buckley

Man in library

Sayre Dearing
Roulette man

Dick Elliott
George

The Modiste

Mr. Littleton

Martin Garralaga
Nick

Cashier

John Harmon
Taxi driver

Eddie Hart
Milkman

Blister

Tom Kingston
Chip man

Charles La Torre
Tony

Woman with Gus in bar

Woman in library

Chef Milani
Rudolfo

Sue Moore
Dame #4

William Newell
Barber #1

Ralph Peters
Joe

Bartender at Frank & Bob's Place

John Piffle
Man in library

Dame #3

Ray Teal
Steve

Model

Harry Tyler
Doctor

Dale Van Sickel
Dance floor brawler

Dorothy Vaughan
Mrs. Ludlow

Mr. Buckley

Martha Wentworth
Woman

Jack Young
Ship's captain

Director

Producer

Frederick Hazlitt Brennan
writer

Clyde Brion Davis
novel

Vincent Lawrence
writer

uncredited

uncredited

adaptation

William H. Wright
adaptation

Sam Zimbalist
producer

Original Music

Cinematographer

Editor

Frank Sullivan
-

Art Director

Urie McCleary
-

Set Decorator

Edwin B. Willis
-

Costume Designer

-

Marion Herwood Keyes
-

Makeup Department

Jack Dawn
makeup artist

hair stylist

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Marvin Stuart
assistant director

Sound Department

Special Effects

Warren Newcombe
special effects

Stunts

Paul Stader
stunts

Music Department

Murray Cutter
orchestrator

Alberto Colombo
composer: additional music

composer: additional music

Wally Heglin
composer: additional music, orchestrator

Production Company

MGM-International Dist.

Loew's
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Distributor

MGM-International Dist.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)






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