Soldier of Fortune is a movie I'd never even heard of until now, which is odd since this 1955 20th Century-Fox adventure romance seems to be. Soldier of Fortune starring Clark Gable and Susan Hayward is a story. The film was released the same year as 'Love is a Many Splendored.

WITH the island of Hong Kong as its locale and with Clark Gable in its title role, it is hard to see how Twentieth Century-Fox's 'Soldier of Fortune' could miss. But it does—by approximately the distance from one end to the other of the Roxy's CinemaScope screen.Sure, the city is here in all the vividness and turmoil that could be absorbed by director Edward Dmytryk's color camera on the spot. Hack linksys router. The harbor is laid out before you, swarming with steamships and junks.

Setsuna will be releasing on the PlayStation 4 and PC via Steam. I am setsuna ending. He has years of veteran working on multiple titles. There is a Japanese PlayStation Vita version, but it's likely that the West won't be getting that version (sorry Vita fans). Leading this task as director is Atsushi Hashimoto. If you had the pleasure of playing games like Final Fantasy 1-6 and/or Chrono Trigger, then you probably have a good idea of what to expect from Setsuna.TRF is hoping to capture the luster of the JRPG golden age for a modern audience.

The streets of the oriental seaport are jammed with polyglot crowds. Gable is prowling in the backroom, eyes narrowed to mere slits in his face, skin leathery and lips a bluish-purple. He's dead game for anything.Unfortunately, however, the story cooked up for him by script writer Ernest K. Gann is a glib and implausible fiction that would be embarrassing to a grade-B film. It tells how an ex-Chicago tough guy, now a king-pin operator in Hong Kong—a gentleman as rich as Croesus and apparently as highly regarded in town—risks his local reputation, his business and eventually his hide to save a cheeky American photographer held prisoner in near-by Communist China just because he has taken a fancy to the American's wife.Even if Susan Hayward, who plays the uxorial role, were ten times as beautiful and exciting as she inadequately is, it still wouldn't stand to reason that Mr. Gable would act as he does. More likely, he would head the sage counsel of his oriental friends: let the American stay in the Chinese prison while he himself makes time with the submissive dame.

Gann has tried to justify the nonsense by suggesting that his hero has a heart as well as a pocketbook of gold.Maybe. But the evidence is more compelling that he has a head of wood.

When he starts on his rescue mission aboard his private junk (which has a stateroom in it that would have looked good in J. Morgan's Corsair), he kidnaps a British port officer. Gann gets him out of this jam by having the officer, Michael Rennie, develop an enthusiasm for the venture and help in the raiding of the Communist prison in Canton.All in all, there are some mighty dubious doings in this Hollywood-international adventure film.The pictures are pretty, however, and some of the minor characters, such as the bar-flies played by Alex D'Arcy, Tom Tully and Jack Kruschen or the faded White Russian 'countess' played by Anna Sten, are amusing in a farcical fashion. You can look at the mountains across the bay or at the boats going up the Canton River and do your own imagining of what this might have been.SOLDIER OF FORTUNE, novel and screen play by Ernest K. Gann; directed by Edward Dmytryk; produced by Buddy Adler for Twentieth Century-Fox.

Hank Lee. Clark GableJane Hoyt. Susan HaywardInspector Merryweather. Michael RennieLouis Hoyt.

Gene BarryTweedie. Tom TullyRene. Alex D'ArcyMme. Anna StenIcky. Russell CollinsBig Matt.

Leo GordonPollin. Richard LooDaklai. Soo LongYing Fai.

Clark Gable's first movie as an independent freelancer, away from the shackles of his 25-year stint as 'King' of MGM - after that studio finally decided (without asking him) that it could do without its moneymaking Rhett Butler and Fletcher Christian and let him go. Twentieth Century-Fox was trying out its new CinemaScope process in a variety of locations, and here Gable finds himself in Hong Kong as a smuggler, hired to locate Susan Hayward's husband Gene Barry, who's either dead or over in Red China, or both. Skilled director Edward Dmytryk makes this melodramatic tosh seem extremely exciting, and Gable and Hayward strike suitably starry sparks from each other. Michael Rennie scene-steals as British policeman Merryweather, and there's a glimpse of Samuel Goldwyn's failed star discovery, the by-then ageing beauty Anna Sten.

Goodness: Gable, Hayward, Dmytryk, plus Hong Kong in CinemaScope, now that's a movie!