Tonight's Movie: The Hucksters (1947) - A Warner Archive Blu-ray Review

THE HUCKSTERS (1947), an MGM advertising drama with a terrific cast, was just released on Blu-ray by the Warner Archive Collection.I first reviewed THE HUCKSTERS nearly 20 years ago, in 2007, after watching it on VHS. The movie was later released by the Warner Archive on a DVD-R in 2011. We've certainly come a long way from the VHS recording I watched years ago to the Warner Archive Collection's sparkling Blu-ray! We're really living in the best of times in terms of high-quality prints available for home viewing.Clark Gable stars in THE HUCKSTERS as Vic Norman, newly returned from wartime service and looking to jumpstart his old career in the advertising business.Vic goes to work for an ad agency run by Mr. Kimberly (Adophe Menjou) and is tasked with dealing with Evan Llewellyn Evans (Sydney Greenstreet), the odd and very difficult owner of Beautee Soap.Through his work on a Beautee Soap ad campaignVic meets war widow Kay Dorrance (Deborah Kerr), a mother of two young children (Eugene…

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