They Met in Bombay (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) awards frog-voiced Clark Gable the Victoria Cross. This fast-and-loose play with Great Britain's most coveted decoration is not likely to please the British or amuse Americans. How the decoration comes about is very odd.
Into a palmy Bombay hotel purrs Mr. Gable, mustachios akimbo. He is a high-hat English jewel thief posing as a Lloyd's of London sluefoot. Behind him undulates Rosalind Russell, clad in a white hat the size of a Syrian water wheel. She, too, is a gem thief, but posing as a baroness. One...
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