# The best Clark Gable movies

The King of Hollywood: from It Happened One Night and Gone with the Wind to Red Dust and The Misfits, Clark Gable's best films as ranked by /Film and Collider.

- 661 votes · 13 items
- Mar 8, 2026 · boxoffice_atlanta
- https://even.best/en/l/4441/the-best-clark-gable-movies

## Top 13

1. **Gone with the Wind (1939)** (76 · ▲78 ▼2) — Victor Fleming. Rhett Butler.
2. **Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)** (58 · ▲60 ▼2) — Frank Lloyd. Fletcher Christian against Captain Bligh.
3. **It Happened One Night (1934)** (56 · ▲60 ▼4) — Frank Capra. A reporter and a runaway heiress; his Oscar.
4. **Red Dust (1932)** (53 · ▲57 ▼4) — Victor Fleming. A rubber plantation with Jean Harlow.
5. **Run Silent, Run Deep (1958)** (39 · ▲44 ▼5) — Robert Wise. A submarine commander with Burt Lancaster; number one for /Film.
6. **Test Pilot (1938)** (33 · ▲42 ▼9) — Victor Fleming. A test pilot, with Spencer Tracy and Myrna Loy.
7. **The Misfits (1961)** (33 · ▲38 ▼5) — John Huston. His last film, with Marilyn Monroe.
8. **San Francisco (1936)** (27 · ▲36 ▼9) — W. S. Van Dyke. A saloon owner and the 1906 earthquake.
9. **Manhattan Melodrama (1934)** (24 · ▲37 ▼13) — W. S. Van Dyke. Two childhood friends, a gangster and a prosecutor.
10. **Strange Cargo (1940)** (23 · ▲32 ▼9) — Frank Borzage. An escape from a penal colony with Joan Crawford.
11. **The Hucksters (1947)** (21 · ▲30 ▼9) — Jack Conway. An adman back from the war.
12. **Wife vs. Secretary (1936)** (21 · ▲29 ▼8) — Clarence Brown. With Jean Harlow and Myrna Loy.
13. **Boom Town (1940)** (9 · ▲24 ▼15) — Jack Conway. Two oil wildcatters, with Spencer Tracy.

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