In The Hucksters, Jack Conway’s gloriously nasty 1947 adaptation of Frederic Wakeman’s ad-world exposé, Clark Gable stars as a man without a past. In that respect, he’d resemble the protagonist of Mad Men even if he weren’t an adman and World War II veteran played by Gable, the endlessly handsome, charming Don Draper of the ’30s and ’40s. Like Mad Men’s equally charming antihero, his existential identity is as a huckster. His gift is the art of the sale: He is one of the field’s uncontested masters. Gable returns from World War II with ...
- 9/7/2011
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