Too Hot to Handle

{{Infobox film | name = Too Hot to Handle | image = Too Hot to Handle (1938 film) Poster.jpg | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = Jack Conway | producer = Lawrence Weingarten | writer = | narrator = | starring = | music = Franz Waxman | cinematography = | editing = Frank Sullivan | studio = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | distributor = Loew's Inc. | released = | runtime = 106 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = $1.5 million<ref name="Mannix">"The Eddie Mannix Ledger." Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study (Los Angeles).</ref> | gross = $2.3 million }}Too Hot to Handle, also known as Let 'Em All Talk, is a 1938 comedy-drama directed by Jack Conway and starring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, and Walter Pidgeon. The plot concerns a newsreel reporter, the female aviator he is attracted to (influenced by Amelia Earhart, who had disappeared 14 months earlier) and his fierce competitor. Many of the comedy gags were devised by an uncredited Buster Keaton. Plot Union Newsreel reporter Chris Hunter is sneakier and has fewer scruples than his rivals in war-torn China. When the Japanese do not oblige with a convenient aerial attack to film, Chris fakes one with a model aircraft with his cameraman José Estanza. Outraged when he finds out, Chris' main competitor, Atlas Newsreel's Bill Dennis decides to do the same, having his aviator friend Alma Harding fly in "serum" for an imaginary cholera outbreak. Chris finds out and swoops in to film her landing. José, however, drives too close to the aircraft, causing it to crash and burst into flames. Chris rescues Alma, but when he starts to go back for the serum, she has to confess that it is a fake. Chris piles on lie after lie to romance Alma, even pretending to get fired by his boss, "Gabby" MacArthur, for burning the footage. Chris convinces her to work for Union. She reveals that she needs the money to mount a search for her brother Harry, lost in the Amazon jungle and given up for dead by everyone else. They travel to New York (where Gabby is eagerly awaiting the landing footage Chris is secretly bringing). Bill follows to protect the woman he has loved for years from his unscrupulous competitor.