China Seas (film)

China Seas
Lobby card
Directed byTay Garnett
Written byJames Kevin McGuinness
Jules Furthman
Based onChina Seas
1931 novel
by Crosbie Garstin
Produced byIrving Thalberg
Albert Lewin
StarringClark Gable
Jean Harlow
Wallace Beery
Lewis Stone
Rosalind Russell
Robert Benchley
Akim Tamiroff
CinematographyRay June
Clyde De Vinna (2nd unit)
Edited byWilliam LeVanway
Music byHerbert Stothart
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • August 9, 1935 (1935-08-09)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1.1 million[1][2]
Box office$2.8 million[1][2]
Lobby card with Beery and Gable
Lobby card with Gable at gunpoint
Lobby card with Gable and Harlow
Publicity still with Gable (center)
Billboard

China Seas is a 1935 American adventure film starring Clark Gable as a brave sea captain, Jean Harlow as his brassy paramour, and Wallace Beery as a suspect character. The oceangoing epic also features Rosalind Russell, Lewis Stone, Akim Tamiroff, and Hattie McDaniel, while humorist Robert Benchley 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 1930 book by Crosbie Garstin, and directed by Tay Garnett. This is one of only four sound films with Beery in which he did not receive top billing.

  1. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  2. ^ a b Scott Eyman, Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer, Robson, 2005 p. 155–156