Chained (1934)

Directed by

Clarence Brown

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 17m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 18 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A married shipping magnate wants to leave his wife for his secretary. She takes a cruise to think things over and falls in love with another man.

romanticconflictedmelancholicemotionalrestrainedold-fashionedbittersweet

What happens

Chained is a 1934 American drama film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable with supporting performances by Otto Kruger, Stuart Erwin, Una O'Connor and Akim Tamiroff. The screenplay was written by John Lee Mahin, Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich based upon a story by Edgar Selwyn. Ward Bond and Mickey Rooney appear briefly in uncredited roles. Richard (Kruger), a shipping magnate, asks his wife for a divorce so he can marry his secretary (Crawford). The wife refuses and Diane, who loves him deeply, offers to become his mistress. He is desperately in love with her, but he knows what that would mean to her life. He sends her on a long cruise to think about it. On the cruise, Mike, a charismatic South American rancher (Gable), sets out to seduce her, and they end up falling in love. She returns to New York City to tell Richard, only to find that he has given up his sons and obtained a divorce. They marry. A chance encounter in New York brings the three together, and in the end, Richard lets Diane go to be with the man she loves most. Chained is the fifth of eight collaborations between Crawford and Gable. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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