May 19 movie: Too Hot to Handle. Fun comedy starring Clark Gable and Walter Pidgeon as rival war correspondents, neither too scrupulous to fake their footage or steal it from each other. They fight over private pilot Myrna Loy and eventually cooperate to help her find her missing brother.
There's a really offensive sequence near the end where they all go to South America and Gable tricks a native population into making him their voodoo king or something. It involves him wearing a mask, jumping up and down and yelling "ooga booga." The movie was great up to that point.
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