Idiot's Delight

1939

Comedy / Drama / Romance

9
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 40% · 5 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 47% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 1875 1.9K

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Plot summary

A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.

Director

Clarence Brown Photo
Clarence Brown

Top cast

Frank Faylen Photo
Frank Faylen as Ed
Edward Arnold Photo
Edward Arnold as Achille Weber
Clark Gable Photo
Clark Gable as Harry
Burgess Meredith Photo
Burgess Meredith as Quillery
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983.18 MB
1280*934
English 2.0
NR
us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 47 min
Seeds 5
1.78 GB
1480*1080
English 2.0
NR
us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 47 min
Seeds 9

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by auntielynn 7 / 10

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Reviewed by smithy-8 8 / 10

Last Teaming with Gable and Shearer

"Idiot's Delight" is a good version of the play. Clark Gable and Norma Shearer do their roles with justice. This is their best and last movie together. Today, the movie may seem dated, but it wasn't in 1939. Hollywood made several movies about fascism. Behind the story of a song and dance man (Clark Gable) with his troupe of blond beauties traveling throughout Europe, lies a story of countries fighting over fascism. Like to make a CORRECTION: On my critique of "Escape", I said there were two endings to the movie, I was wrong. I was thinking of this movie. On "Idiot's Delight", they made two endings: one for America and one for the international market (they were already fighting in the pre-WWII war). The international ending makes more sense. You can see the movie with both endings on Turner Classic Movies.
Reviewed by SimonJack 8 / 10

Shearer and Gable ham it up to this idiot's delight

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