Key to the City

a great video
"Key to the City," with Clark Gable and Loretta Young is a wonderful and delightful film. It is the story of two Mayor's one played by Clark, Mayor Finch from California and Mayor Standdish from Maine, played wonderfully by Loretta. The two fall in love in th epolitical world, and find out even though they are total opposites in tastes and personalities, they were made for each other. A great romantic, and entertaining film. I highly recomend it. It has a great story-line. It is very entertaining.

Oil & Water Romantic Comedy Has Charm
"Key to the City" is a 1950 romantic comedy starring Clark Gable and Loretta Young in their first and final screen pairing since "The Call of the Wild" (1935). When small-town mayor Steve Fisk (Gable) arrives at a national mayors' convention in San Fancisco, he meets attractive Clarissa Standish (Young), mayor of Winonah, Maine. They are from completely different backgrounds -- she's a Harvard law school grad, he's a roughneck ex-longshoreman -- but they are both honest politicians.

Steve invites Clarissa to dine at a rowdy nightclub, which lands them both in jail. Their arrests make the morning papers, Clarissa finds herself falling for Steve, and she's forced to choose between love and duty when the scandal threatens both of their careers. Co-starring Raymond Burr (TV's Perry Mason), "Key to the City" also marked the final screen appearance of Frank Morgan (the title character in "The Wizard of Oz"). Three years later, Loretta Young would abandon her big-screen...

Now we know as to why Clarke Gable was "King" in his time
An excellent film with humour, a moral story on City Hall corruption and a cast which brings the 'zing' to each one of their roles'. The conversation between the Judge and the Mayor by way of the City Hall exchange though each is in an adjoining booth at the city airport is hilarious. Just one of the clever twists in the tale.
A family film!

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