Comrade X

Dec 13, 1940

1h 30m

★ 5.9

This Year's Laugh Riot!

Overview

An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.

Genres

Comedy

Romance

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Comrade X Trailers

Cast

McKinley B. 'Mac' Thompson

Clark Gable

Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie'

Hedy Lamarr

Commissar Vasiliev

Oskar Homolka

Igor Yahupitz / Vanya

Felix Bressart

Jane Wilson

Eve Arden

Emil Von Hofer

Sig Ruman

Olga Milanova

Natasha Lytess

Michael Bastakoff

Vladimir Sokoloff

Rubick

Edgar Barrier

Laszlo

Georges Renavent

Comrade Baronoff

Leon Belasco

Goronoff

Michael Mark

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