Chained (DVD)

Whenever film icons Joan Crawford and Clark Gable co-starred in a film, there was always something to keep these two made-for-each-others apart. They might be from opposite sides of the tracks or opposite sides of the law and sometimes just being the opposite sex was enough to draw them together and drive them apart. But the impediment was often another man. In Chained, it's Crawford's older lover (Otto Kruger), who gets the divorce Crawford's been hoping for just after she has a shipboard fling with Gable, leaving her torn between new romance and old obligation. For anyone who's curious about what made the Crawford-Gable team work, look no further than the banter-filled swimming pool scene. It's Screen Seduction 101.

Starring: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Otto Kruger, Stuart Erwin, Una O'Connor, Akim Tamiroff Pablo, Hooper Atchley, Phillips Smalley, Edward Le Saint, Gordon de Main, Theresa Maxwell Conover, Adrian Rosley, Louis Natheaux, Akim Tamiroff, Marjorie Gateson, Lee Phelps, Ward Bond, Ernie Alexander, Grace Hayle, Nora Cecil, Mickey Rooney, Delmar Watson, Paul Porcasi, Chris Pin Martin, George Humbert, Gino Corrado, Sam Flint, Nick Copeland, Tom Mahoney, Colin Chase, Frank Parker, Franklin Parker, William Stack, Wade Boteler, Tommy Bupp, Kendall McComas

Director: Hunt Stromberg

Rating: NR