List of the best Clark Gable movies: Gone With the Wind(1939), Red Dust(1932), Run Silent, Run Deep(1958), The Misfits(1961), Boom Town(1940), Wife vs. Secretary(1936), Test Pilot(1938), Any Number Can Play(1949), Mogambo(1953), The Tall Men(1955), Too Hot to Handle(1938), Honky Tonk(1941) ... ...
Romance, History, Drama
USA
1939
222 Minutes
Rhett Butler
Clark Gable Vivien Leigh Leslie Howard Olivia de Havilland Thomas Mitchell Barbara O'Neil Victor Jory Laura Hope Crews Hattie McDaniel Ona Munson Harry Davenport
ingénue soldier husband cousin slave emotional touching family home atlanta park household saloon georgia american civil war romance jealousy marriage friendship love triangle forbidden love
A manipulative woman and a roguish man conduct a turbulent romance during the American Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
Romance
USA
1932
83 Minutes
Clark Gable Jean Harlow Mary Astor Donald Crisp Gene Raymond Tully Marshall Willie Fung
foreman prostitute surveyor wife servant employee passionate engaging fiery indochina plantation jungle love triangle adultery deception rubber business prostitution forbidden love temptation transformation
The owner of a rubber plantation becomes involved with the new wife of one of his employees.
War
USA
1958
93 Minutes
Cmdr. "Rich" Richardson
Clark Gable Burt Lancaster Jack Warden Brad Dexter Nick Cravat Mary LaRoche Don Rickles Eddie Foy III
commander military officer sailor enemy thrilling patriotic submarine military base pacific ocean world war ii vengeance rebellion naval warfare obsession pursuit revenge rivalry 1940s
A U.S. sub commander, obsessed with sinking a certain Japanese ship, butts heads with his first officer and crew.
Western, Drama
USA
1961
124 Minutes
Gay Langland
Clark Gable Marilyn Monroe Montgomery Clift Thelma Ritter Eli Wallach James Barton Estelle Winwood Kevin McCarthy Marietta Tree
divorcée cowboy gambler rodeo rider drifter friend winsome cheeky reno, nev. casino bar ranch house middle age depression horses gambling love triangle discovery temptation
A divorcée falls for an over-the-hill cowboy who is struggling to maintain his romantically independent lifestyle.
Adventure
USA
1940
119 Minutes
Big John McMasters
Clark Gable Spencer Tracy Claudette Colbert Hedy Lamarr Frank Morgan Lionel Atwill Chill Wills Marion Martin Minna Gombell Joe Yule Horace Murphy
partner sheriff oil baron love interest engaging emotional texas south america revolution oil business law romance wealth rivalry rise transformation love 1930s
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1936
88 Minutes
Van
Clark Gable Jean Harlow Myrna Loy May Robson George Barbier James Stewart Hobart Cavanaugh Tom Dugan Gilbert Emery Marjorie Gateson Gloria Holden
publisher wife secretary mother fiancé lighthearted charming new york city office family home hotel havana jealousy misunderstanding secret plans love triangle love temptation 1930s
The wife of a publishing executive mistakenly believes that her husband's relationship with his attractive secretary is more than professional.
Adventure
USA
1938
118 Minutes
Clark Gable Myrna Loy Spencer Tracy Lionel Barrymore Samuel S. Hinds Marjorie Main Gloria Holden Louis Jean Heydt
pilot mechanic wife boss gripping melodramatic kansas farm airplane aviation friendship alcoholism bravery adventure sacrifice 1930s
Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.
Drama
USA
1949
112 Minutes
Charley Enley Kyng
Clark Gable Alexis Smith Mary Astor Wendell Corey Audrey Totter Lewis Stone Marjorie Rambeau Frank Morgan Barry Sullivan Edgar Buchanan Leon Ames
casino owner wife son sister-in-law husband gambler engaging tense tender cool casino family home country club work vs. family gambling family feud scam disease robbery transformation
Gambling-house owner finds himself estranged from his wife and son.
Adventure
USA
1953
115 Minutes
Victor Marswell
Clark Gable Ava Gardner Grace Kelly Donald Sinden Philip Stainton Eric Pohlmann Laurence Naismith Denis O'Dea
big game hunter guide traveler anthropologist gorilla crafty gutsy passionate striking sultry kenya africa safari love triangle unrequited love hunting adventure love 1950s
On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley's cheating wife Linda.
Western
USA
1955
122 Minutes
Colonel Ben Allison
Clark Gable Jane Russell Robert Ryan Cameron Mitchell Juan Garcia Harry Shannon Emile Meyer Mae Marsh
cowboy brother businessman beautiful woman native american rousing gritty texas wild west montana love triangle siblings journey frontier life quest love rivalry 1860s
Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers, angry Sioux, rough terrain and bad weather.
Comedy
USA
1938
105 Minutes
Christopher `'Chris'` Hunter
Clark Gable Myrna Loy Walter Pidgeon Leo Carrillo Johnny Hines Virginia Weidler
journalist pilot filmmaker assistant boss lighthearted witty charming shanghai new york city amazon airplane love triangle aviation chase journalism adventure rescue love 1930s
Two rival newsreel photographers join forces to find an aviatrix's missing brother, who has disappeared in the Amazon rainforest.
Western
USA
1941
105 Minutes
"Candy" Johnson
Clark Gable Lana Turner Frank Morgan Claire Trevor Marjorie Main Albert Van Dekker Chill Wills Veda Ann Borg
swindler judge daughter old flame housekeeper partner engaging playful emotional train nevada saloon boardinghouse small town ambition romance father/daughter relationship friendship duplicity drinking
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
Adventure
USA
1941
93 Minutes
Gerald Meldrick
Clark Gable Rosalind Russell Peter Lorre Jessie Ralph Reginald Owen Edward Ciannelli
thief duchess con artist captain police detective aristocrat charming witty madcap india hotel ship bedroom jewelry theft assumed identity deception unlikely allies con game crime pursuit
A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable gem as the Japanese army invades China.
Adventure
USA
1957
127 Minutes
Hamish Bond
Clark Gable Yvonne De Carlo Sidney Poitier Efrem Zimbalist Jr. Patric Knowles Rex Reason Torin Thatcher Andrea King Ray Teal
plantation owner slave trader daughter passionate fiery kentucky united states love racial issues father/daughter relationship discovery 19th century
Amantha Starr grows up as a privileged southern Belle in the ante-bellum South, but after her father dies broke, her world is destroyed when she discovers her mother was black.
Romance
USA
1940
90 Minutes
McKinley B. 'Mac' Thompson
Clark Gable Hedy Lamarr Oscar Homolka Felix Bressart Eve Arden Sig Ruman Natasha Lytess Vladimir Sokoloff Edgar Barrier John Piccori Mikhail Rasumny
journalist streetcar driver valet lighthearted playful patriotic moscow father/daughter relationship communism censorship love marriage love escape transformation 1940s
An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1932
85 Minutes
Babe Stewart
Clark Gable Carole Lombard Dorothy Mackaill Grant Mitchell Elizabeth Patterson Lillian Harmer George Barbier J. Farrell MacDonald Charley Grapewin
gambler librarian partner detective wife mistress cheeky confident emotional manhattan small town new york city apartment wall street gambling marriage deception investigation crime relocation
An on-the-lam New York card shark marries a small-town librarian who thinks he's a businessman.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1937
94 Minutes
Duke Bradley
Clark Gable Jean Harlow Lionel Barrymore Frank Morgan Walter Pidgeon Una Merkel Cliff Edwards George Zucco Hattie McDaniel Margaret Hamilton
After winning a stud farm in lieu of gambling debts, bookie Duke Bradley turns an eye to the daughter of the now deceased gambler and her millionaire fiancée.
Comedy
USA
1950
99 Minutes
Steve Fisk
Clark Gable Loretta Young Frank Morgan Marilyn Maxwell Raymond Burr James Gleason Lewis Stone Raymond Walburn Pamela Britton Zamah Cunningham Marion Martin
mayor political candidate longshoreman sergeant judge rival charming emotional amusing san francisco small town convention california romance political corruption election convention opposites attract politics love
Two mayors meet at a convention and, despite their contrasting personalities and views, find themselves attracted to one other.
Drama
USA
1934
80 Minutes
Dr. George Ferguson
Clark Gable Myrna Loy Jean Hersholt Elizabeth Allan Otto Kruger Wallace Ford Henry B. Walthall Samuel S. Hinds
intern fiancée physician nurse doctor best friend melodramatic tense hospital dormitory apartment operating room duty romance medicine surgery ambition cheating quest sacrifice
An idealistic doctor must make some hard choices between his dedication to the profession and his personal life.
Romance
USA
1960
100 Minutes
Michael Hamilton
Clark Gable Sophia Loren Vittorio De Sica Marietto Paolo Carlini Claudio Ermelli Giovanni Filidoro
lawyer sister-in-law nephew brother italian american charming melodramatic heartwarming amusing naples, italy island family home village office capri reunion funeral custody battle may-december romance
Days before his wedding, a Philadelphia lawyer travels to Naples in Southern Italy to settle the estate of his late brother, only to find that he has an Italian nephew who is being cared for by his maternal aunt, a cabaret singer.
Adventure
USA
1951
78 Minutes
Flint Mitchell
Clark Gable Ricardo Montalban John Hodiak Adolphe Menjou María Elena Marqués J. Carrol Naish Jack Holt Alan Napier George Chandler Richard Anderson
trapper native american warrior native american woman beautiful woman friend spirited emotional wild west wilderness interracial romance culture clash exploitation marriage confrontation survival forbidden love rivalry transformation 1830s
Trapper Flint Mitchell and other mountain men from the Rendezvous join forces to enter virgin trapping territory but must contend with a resentful Blackfoot chief.
Drama
USA
1950
91 Minutes
Mike Brannan
Clark Gable Barbara Stanwyck Adolphe Menjou Roland Winters Will Geer Emory Parnell Frank Jenks
race car driver opponent reporter mechanic veteran melodramatic thrilling heartwarming racetrack newsroom racing accidental death scandal journalism comeback stunt driving rivalry love transformation 1950s
A former war hero and midget car racer meets his match in a feisty reporter who blames his reckless tactics for an accidental racing death.
Mystery & Thriller
UK|USA
1953
94 Minutes
Philip Sutherland
Clark Gable Gene Tierney Bernard Miles Richard Haydn Kenneth More Belita Theodore Bikel
An American reporter stationed in post-war Moscow marries a ballet dancer, but their relationship is threatened by the country's political volatility.
Comedy, Western
USA
1956
86 Minutes
Dan Kehoe
Clark Gable Eleanor Parker Jo Van Fleet Jean Willes Barbara Nichols Sara Shane Jay C. Flippen Arthur Shields Roy Roberts
cowboy widow mother bartender sheriff bandit playful amusing melodramatic intricate ghost town wild west ranch saloon scam treasure heist family dysfunction love triangle discovery
Opportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and their beautiful widows in order to find their hidden gold.
Drama
USA
1931
83 Minutes
Warren "Rid" Riddell
Clark Gable Ernest Torrence Madge Evans Lew Cody Marie Prevost J. Farrell MacDonald
ranch hand horse owner wife gambler card dealer girlfriend engaging amusing moving horse track ranch gambling house countryside horse racing racketeering sabotage reunion murder wager quest
The saga of thoroughbred Tommy Boy, born in a rain puddle, and his various owners as he evolves into a a champion stakes horse.
Biography
USA
1937
119 Minutes
Charles Stewart Parnell
Clark Gable Myrna Loy Edna May Oliver Edmund Gwenn Alan Marshal Donald Crisp Billie Burke Donald Meek
politician captain wife rival wealthy woman irishman tense patriotic melodramatic ireland court england estate parliament bedroom charles stewart parnell politics trial infidelity romance
The life of Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell, following from 1880 onward his struggle to secure Home Rule, pursued in prison, Parliament, and elsewhere. Emphasis is on the ... See full summary »
Adventure
1936
115 Minutes
Blackie Norton
Clark Gable Jeanette MacDonald Spencer Tracy Jack Holt Jessie Ralph Ted Healy Shirley Ross Al Shean
singer nightclub owner pretty woman real estate agent melodramatic emotional tender san francisco lottery love music opera salvation natural disasters love underdog rivalry 1900s
A Barbary Coast gambler (Clark Gable) loves his new saloon singer (Jeanette MacDonald), then loses her in the 1906 earthquake panic.
Crime, Drama
1934
93 Minutes
Edward J. `'Blackie'` Gallagher
Clark Gable William Powell Myrna Loy Leo Carrillo Isabel Jewell Mickey Rooney Nat Pendleton
casino owner politician love interest priest engaging gripping thrilling touching melodramatic new york city casino friendship new love self-sacrifice loyalty political campaign immortality sacrifice rise growing up
A district attorney (William Powell) condemns his boyhood buddy, a racketeer (Clark Gable) whose crime saves his bid for governor.
War
1948
112 Minutes
Brig. Gen. K.C. "Casey" Dennis
Clark Gable Walter Pidgeon Van Johnson Brian Donlevy Charles Bickford John Hodiak Edward Arnold Marshall Thompson Richard Quine Cameron Mitchell Clinton Sundberg
military officer reporter politician pilot patriotic somber engaging military base england world war ii horrors of war aviation dangerous job discovery transformation 1940s
A U.S. general (Clark Gable) and his superior (Walter Pidgeon) take heat for sending bombers to Germany to destroy aircraft plants.
Romance
USA
1934
105 Minutes
Peter Warne
Claudette Colbert Clark Gable Walter Connolly Roscoe Karns Alan Hale Ward Bond
heiress reporter father husband salesman boss charming amusing playful madcap hotel bus highway countryside vehicle road love triangle road trip class distinctions prejudice
A renegade reporter and a crazy young heiress meet on a bus heading for New York, and end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops.
Adventure
USA
1935
132 Minutes
Charles Laughton Clark Gable Franchot Tone Herbert Mundin Eddie Quillan Dudley Digges Donald Crisp Movita Henry Stephenson Spring Byington
fletcher christian sailor native capt. william bligh captain tense engaging spirited hms bounty england tahiti pitcairn island sailors mutiny tyrants rebellion adventure revenge escape 1780s
First mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real-life 1788 mutiny.
Adventure
USA
1940
113 Minutes
Joan Crawford Clark Gable Ian Hunter Peter Lorre Albert Van Dekker Paul Lukas Edward Ciannelli J. Edward Bromberg John Arledge Frederick Worlock Bernard Nedell
prisoner prostitute killer religious person captor cynic dark eerie profound intense prison island jungle french guiana boat religious conversion prison break death penal system boats
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
Romance
USA
1933
86 Minutes
Jean Harlow Clark Gable Stuart Erwin Elizabeth Patterson Blanche Frederici Dorothy Burgess Muriel Kirkland Garry Owen Barbara Barondess Paul Hurst Theresa Harris
con artist woman partner ex-girlfriend minister criminal thrilling amusing tender apartment prison reform school love crime accident blackmail infidelity responsibility love discovery
A woman is sent to a reformatory when her con artist lover flees after killing a man during a botched blackmail scheme.
Musical
USA
1933
92 Minutes
Joan Crawford Clark Gable Franchot Tone Nelson Eddy May Robson Winnie Lightner Robert Benchley Ted Healy The Three Stooges Gloria Foy Maynard Holmes
burlesque dancer playboy director assistant grandmother singer heartwarming emotional new york city broadway theater dance love triangle jealousy show business love pursuit 1930s
An attractive dancer is rescued from jail by a rich man, who helps her to have her first big opportunity at a musical play on Broadway.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1936
90 Minutes
Larry Cain
Marion Davies Clark Gable Allen Jenkins Roscoe Karns Walter Catlett Robert Paige Hobart Cavanaugh Ruth Donnelly Pert Kelton William Collier Sammy White
A talented boxer and a gifted dancer hope to increase their waning popularity by inventing a fictitious love affair for the benefit of the tabloids.
Romance
USA
1931
74 Minutes
Rodney Spencer
Greta Garbo Clark Gable Jean Hersholt John Miljan Alan Hale Hale Hamilton Hilda Vaughn Russell Simpson Cecil Cunningham Ian Keith Marjorie King
Fleeing her cruel uncle and an arranged marriage Susan Lenox falls in love with a kind stranger but circumstances force her to become a woman of easy virtue.
Crime, Drama
USA
1935
73 Minutes
James `'Jim'` Branch
Constance Bennett Clark Gable Stuart Erwin Billie Burke Harvey Stephens Henry Travers William Demarest Katharine Alexander
Hard-hitting news editor Jim Branch falls for high-society type Sharon Norwood but can't get to first base as he continually makes use of her knowledge of the rich and famous to try to ... See full summary »
Action
USA
1931
113 Minutes
Wallace Beery Clark Gable Conrad Nagel Dorothy Jordan Marjorie Rambeau Marie Prevost Cliff Edwards
Story of rivalry between 2 Navy aircrewmen on and off duty.
Drama
USA
1932
69 Minutes
Reverend John Hartley
Marion Davies Clark Gable C. Aubrey Smith Raymond Hatton David Landau Maude Eburne
trapeze artist minister doctor bishop heckler uncle melodramatic witty uplifting circus church small town vermont house unlikely romance traveling performers religion marriage prejudice censorship
After a trapeze performer is injured during an accident, she is moved to a minister's house where they both fall in love.
Romance
USA
1934
76 Minutes
Joan Crawford Clark Gable Otto Kruger Stuart Erwin Una O'Connor Akim Tamiroff Marjorie Gateson
wealthy man secretary rancher wife friend melodramatic charming new york city south america argentina boat apartment country house marrying for money divorce wealth love triangle travel commitment love
A mistress of one man has a shipboard romance with another and is torn between both men.
Romance
USA
1931
72 Minutes
Joan Crawford Clark Gable Neil Hamilton Johnny Mack Brown Marjorie Rambeau Guy Kibbee Roscoe Karns
Cabaret performer Ivy Stevens in an affair with a low-rent traveling salesman is dumped in a 'Dear Jane' letter and finds solace in joining the Salvation Army.
Comedy
1936
80 Minutes
Joan Crawford Clark Gable Franchot Tone Reginald Owen Mona Barrie Ivan Lebedeff Charles Judels William Demarest
heiress prince journalist millionaire wife madcap lighthearted london paris new york city airplane train journalism wedding wealth romance love adventure rivalry 1930s
Rival newsmen (Clark Gable, Franchot Tone) and an American heiress (Joan Crawford) get mixed up with spies in Europe.
Romance
1934
84 Minutes
Joan Crawford Clark Gable Robert Montgomery Charles Butterworth Billie Burke Rosalind Russell Frances Drake
friend fiancée mistress aunt hilarious emotional household wedding countryside boat love triangle friendship secret marriage divorce unrequited love love discovery 1930s
A man (Clark Gable) loves his childhood sweetheart (Joan Crawford) from afar after her fiance (Robert Montgomery) leaves her at the altar.
Drama
USA
1931
91 Minutes
Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant
Norma Shearer Lionel Barrymore Clark Gable Leslie Howard James Gleason
lawyer mobster daughter fiancé judge emotional melodramatic courtroom family home trial love triangle murder pursuit sacrifice 1930s
An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.
Drama
USA
1933
84 Minutes
Jules Fabian
John Barrymore Helen Hayes Clark Gable Lionel Barrymore Robert Montgomery C. Henry Gordon Harry Beresford Irving Pichel
Polio breaks out in Rio de Janeiro, the serum is in Santiago and there's only one way to get the medicine where it's desperately needed: flown in by daring pilots who risk the treacherous weather and forbidding peaks of the Andes.
Crime, Drama
USA
1931
81 Minutes
Jake Luva
Joan Crawford Cliff Edwards Clark Gable Lester Vail William Bakewell William Holden Earle Foxe Purnell Pratt Hale Hamilton Natalie Moorhead Joan Marsh
After the death of her father and loss of the family fortune, Bonnie gets a job as a cub reporter while her brother becomes involved in bootlegging.
Western
USA
1931
75 Minutes
Rance Brett
William Boyd Helen Twelvetrees Clark Gable William Farnum J. Farrell MacDonald Rose Plumer
Two men find an abandoned baby and fight over the ownership of the child resulting in lifelong rivalry.
Crime, Drama
USA
1931
80 Minutes
Carl Luckner
Wallace Beery Lewis Stone Jean Harlow Johnny Mack Brown Marjorie Rambeau Paul Hurst Clark Gable Ralph Bellamy John Miljan DeWitt Jennings Murray Kinnell
After rising bootlegger Slaughterhouse Scorpio eliminates his gangland competition, two reporters and a cabal of six businessmen work to expose him.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1924
80 Minutes
Soldier in Czarina's guard
Pola Negri Rod La Rocque Adolphe Menjou Pauline Starke Fred Malatesta Nick De Ruiz Carrie Daumery Clark Gable Bill Quinn
czarina captain lover suitor ambassador rebel playful thrilling cheeky melodramatic europe bedroom royal court palace affair jealousy revolution love triangle political intrigue kidnapping
Alexei saves the Czarina from conspirators and is rewarded with her love. He deserts his sweetheart Anna, but discovers that his Queen is unfaithful too. Enraged, Alexei becomes a leader in the ongoing revolution against the royals.
Drama
1925
113 Minutes
Mae Murray John Gilbert Roy D'Arcy Josephine Crowell George Fawcett Tully Marshall Gertrude Bennett Sidney Bracey Estelle Clark Edward Connelly Albert Conti
prince dancer king uncle baron widow melodramatic passionate palace wedding dance hall ruritania marriage courtship class conflict royal life second chance underdog pursuit love
A prince (John Gilbert) and a baron with a foot fetish vie for a widowed U.S. dancer (Mae Murray) in Ruritania.