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5.6/10   216 votes
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Director:
Clarence Brown
Writers:
John Lee Mahin (writer)
Edgar Selwyn (story)
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Release Date:
31 August 1934 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Romance more
Tagline:
When she's in his arms, it's the grandest thrill the screen can give!
Plot:
A mistress of one man has a shipboard romance with another and is torn between both men. | add synopsis
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The basic love triangle is given star treatment and the stars are fun to watch. more

Cast

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Joan Crawford ... Diane Lovering

Clark Gable ... Michael 'Mike' Bradley

Otto Kruger ... Richard I. Field
Stuart Erwin ... John L. 'Johnnie' Smith
Una O'Connor ... Amy, Diane's Maid
Marjorie Gateson ... Mrs. Louise Fields
Akim Tamiroff ... Pablo, the Ranch Chef
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Additional Details

Runtime:
76 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Joan Crawford met her biological father only once when he visited her on the set of Chained (1934). She would never see him again. more
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Featured in Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star (2002) (TV) more
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Dinah more

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6 out of 8 people found the following comment useful:-
The basic love triangle is given star treatment and the stars are fun to watch., 4 November 1998
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Author: Arthur Hausner (genart@volcano.net) from Pine Grove, California

The love triangle was and is a popular movie theme, so when Clark Gable and Joan Crawford are part of it, you can expect some good entertainment. They have very good chemistry together, perhaps because they were reportedly lovers offscreen. The third leg of the triangle is suave Otto Kruger, who never gives a bad performance, and there is also Gable's best friend, Stuart Erwin, who is there mostly for comic relief. I enjoyed the shipboard romance, which was neatly combined with some comedy, and included scenes with a young Mickey Rooney before his Andy Hardy days. I was surprised at the ending, which seemed to go against the Code.

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