to be frank and this film be nothing but a ghost of one of the great love story in hollywood . when look at it from a purely fictional standpoint and gable and lombard could be a mildly entertaining film and which be why i give it a three to save it from utter ruination . but when look from a historical standpoint and become familiar with the real clark gable and carole lombard and one realize how ridiculous this film really be . the poorly write script should have be base upon the novel by warren g. harris rather than fantasy while the casting office should have look for actor well suit for the part . while james brolin do what he could with a poorly write part and he certainly be no gable and end up perform a dull imitation of one of the great legend hollywood have ever know . but my main concern be with the terrible miscasting of jill clayburgh a the iconoclastic lombard . she be entirely wrong for the part in both physicality and personality and end up come off a crude and impudent . the real lombard be hardly such and while she use the language that clayburgh shout over and over again in the film and in reality it do not come off in the cheap manner that clayburgh perform it in . those close to lombard say she use class with her swearing and certainly clayburgh be entirely incapable of portray the class associate with lombard personality . while clayburgh be not a terrible actress and she could not become the essence of lombard and again it eventuate in a cheap mimicry of one of hollywood most signature actress . address that other problem associate with clayburgh casting and her nonexistent physical resemblance to the real lombard and come off a a travesty . while i would normally overlook poor physical resemblance to the real life people an actor be portray and it be nearly impossible to do whilst watch a tall and shrill woman portray a woman who and in reality and be petite and classy . i will grant that clayburgh and perhaps and do all that she could to capture lombard but certainly it do not seem so when watch this pathetic film . gable and lombard eventuate in a shrewd and mediocre film that be not worth the time that it take in drag the viewer through the unbearable misrepresentation of various figure of hollywood classic period . if you be brilliant enough of a magician to suspend the image of the real clark gable and carole lombard long enough to see through the historical inaccuracy and rather mediocre act and gable and lombard can be enjoyable . certainly and i wouldn not be one to suggest it .