The Hucksters: Clark Gable plays a big-time peddler in this social drama

Movie Reviewed: The Hucksters, starring Clark Gable

Brilliantly portrayed by Clark Gable as a huckster of a marketing firm, and beautifully supported by Deborah Kerr as his love interest; this movie is a pleasure to watch. The story is about Victor Norman (Clark Gable); a war veteran joins an advertising company as their top-notch marketing specialist. In the first assignment, he recruits a war widow, Kay Dorrance (Deborah Kerr) to do a commercial for soap product. This engagement brings into direct conflict with a demanding and autocratic client Evan Llewellyn Evans (Sydney Greenstreet), the owner of the soap manufacturing company. This is a drama of a young marketing recruit battling the giant of the industry to prove a point that money can't buy him.

Deborah Kerr looks absolutely ravishing and Ava Gardner plays a young woman named Jean Ogilvie who is attracted to Victor but saddened to know that his interest is focused on Kay. Director Jack Conway is a master of making drama movies, and he has directed some of the best that includes; Saratoga, A Yank at Oxford, The Gay Bride, Libeled Lady, The girl from Missouri, The red headed woman, Too hot to handle, A star is born, and A tale of the two cities. He worked with Clark Gable and other major stars of the golden era and he is at ease in working with such monumental figures of that time. Highly recommended!