Too Hot to Handle, also known as Let 'Em All Talk, is a 1938 comedy-drama directed by Jack Conway and starring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, and Walter Pidgeon.

The plot concerns a newsreel reporter, the female aviator he is attracted to (influenced by Amelia Earhart, who had disappeared 14 months earlier)[2] and his fierce competitor.

Many of the comedy gags were devised by an uncredited Buster Keaton.Union Newsreel reporter Chris Hunter is sneakier and has fewer scruples than his rivals in war-torn China.

When the Japanese do not oblige with a convenient aerial attack to film, Chris fakes one with a model aircraft with his cameraman José Estanza.

Outraged when he finds out, Chris' main competitor, Atlas Newsreel's Bill Dennis decides to do the same, having his aviator friend Alma Harding fly in "serum" for an imaginary cholera outbreak.

Ashamed, Chris and Bill hock their equipment and have José pretend to be a generous, kind-hearted South American plantation owner.

Despite José's warning that the man is a follower of voodoo and means them no good, Alma is convinced when the native produces Harry's watch.

Principal photography with the pre-production title of the Let 'Em All Talk took place from May 9 to late August 1938. with the primary location in the United States being Sherwood Forest, California.

[5] The review in Variety, noted: "Adventures of a newsreel cameraman are the basis for this Clark Gable-Myrna Loy co-starrer.

"[6] Reviewer Frank S. Nugent, however, represented many critics when he wrote in The New York Times: “... ’Too Hot to Handle’ is any one of a dozen fairly entertaining melodramas you might have seen in the last five years.