Clark Gable plays a journalist somewhere in the South Seas, who sets up fake stories about Japanese attacks? I saw something like this when I was a kid, back in the 60s; about all I remember about it is Gable and a bunch of model planes that he was photographing to make it look like a real attack, complete with sound effects.
If this isn't that movie, does anyone know what the title is?
Note: This is a amended post. The original was in error, which was brought to my attention by poster becamphome below, who knew my original answer to the OP -- that the film he was thinking of was Somewhere I'll Find You (1942) -- was inaccurate. My dumb mistake, and my thanks to becamphome for catching it.
Updated and corrected reply to the OP:
No. That movie is Too Hot to Handle (1938), with Gable and Walter Pidgeon playing scrappy reporters, faking their war coverage when necessary (the model plane crash in a tub of water and so on) to advance their careers. The two men eventually clash over Myrna Loy. It was in black & white and filmed mainly on the MGM back lot and in southern California.
Soldier of Fortune (1955) is an adventure film with Gable a slightly shady wheeler-dealer in Hong Kong, who agrees to rescue Susan Hayward's husband, who's imprisoned in Red China. It's in color and pretty exciting, and Gable and most of the cast actually filmed their exterior scenes on location in Hong Kong. (Susan Hayward couldn't go, because she feared losing custody of her sons in her divorce if she left the country, so all her scenes were done at the studios of 20th Century Fox, and a double was used for long shots filmed in Hong Kong.) The movie helped revive Gable's box-office standing.
Too Hot to Handle is a pleasant enough film, but for my money Soldier of Fortune is much better.
My immediate answer was going to be TOO HOT TO HANDLE (1938), in which Gable played a newsreel cameraman in China and he fakes a Japanese attack with model planes to create a newsreel when there's nothing happening to actually report. I've never seen SOMEWHERE I'LL FIND YOU, so I was unaware that that film had a similar plot point.
bcamphome, you're absolutely right -- it was Too Hot to Handle. I have no idea how I could have made such a dopey mistake, but somehow I unthinkingly conflated the two films (probably because of the war aspects). Somewhere I'll Find You is a straight drama. Whatever I was thinking when I wrote that post I was not in my right (movie) mind.
Thank you for spotting and correcting my mistake. After posting this I'm going back to that post and correcting it, with all credit to you. Thanks again!