Chained (1934 film)

Chained is a 1934 motion picture directed by Clarence Brown, starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable, with supporting performances by Otto Kruger and Stuart Erwin. The screenplay was written by John Lee Mahin, Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich, based upon a story by Edgar Selwyn.

Eager to marry his devoted secretary, Diane Lovering Joan Crawford, New York City shipping magnate Richard Field Otto Kruger asks his wife Louise Marjorie Gateson for a divorce. Louise, however, refuses to give up her social position and denies Richards request. Although Diane insists that she will continue to love him without the benefit of marriage, Richard asks her to contemplate her choices while cruising to South America on one of his boats. Diane agrees to the cruise, but vows to return to New York unchanged.Soon after boarding, Diane meets Johnnie Smith Stuart Erwin in the ships bar and rejects his flirtations. Determined, Johnny asks his smoothtalking best friend, Mike Bradley Clark Gable, for help, but is doublecrossed when Mike treats him like a drunk in front of Diane. Mike soon charms Diane, and a shipboard romance blossoms. Still true to Richard, Diane makes no commitments to Mike and declines his invitation to visit him on his ranch in Buenos Aires. Mike nevertheless shows up at her Buenos Aires hotel and insists that she join him at his ranch. After a funfilled day, Diane and Mike confess their mutual love, and Diane finally tells Mike about Richard. Realizing that Mike is the man she truly loves, Diane promises him that when she returns to New York, she will end her affair with Richard. ........

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