Adventure is a 1945 film, based on the novel The Anointed by Clyde Brion Davis. Clark Gable and Greer Garson star as a sailor and a librarian. It was Gable's first postwar film and the tagline repeated in the movie's famous trailer was "Gable's back and Garson's got him!" It was directed by Victor Fleming, one of Gable's favorite directors. When his ship is torpedoed by a Japanese submarine, Harry Patterson, a World War II merchant marine boatswain, is cast adrift on a launch with a few of his shipmates. While Harry remains calm in the face of disaster, his friend Mudgin prays desperately,... promising to avoid women, liquor and fighting and to donate money to the church if they are saved. Harry finds Mudgin's pleas ridiculous, but no sooner does Mudgin complete his pact with God than a rescue plane appears on the horizon and the men are saved. They are then deposited in San Francisco. Mudgin quickly breaks all his promises to God soon after and becomes depressed, certain that he has "lost his immortal soul." While Mudgin's shipmates laugh off his concerns, Harry realizes that Mudgin is truly wracked with guilt and they take a walk, arriving at the city library.
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| Release date: | December 28, 1945 |
| Directed by: | Victor Fleming |
| Runtime: | 135 Minutes |
| Producer: | Sam Zimbalist |
| Editor: | Frank Sullivan |
| Music by: | Herbert Stothart |
| Cinematography: | Joseph Ruttenberg |
| Screenplay by: | Vincent Lawrence, William H. Wright, Anthony Veiller, Frederick Hazlitt Brennan |
| Adapted from: | The Anointed |