Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 10, 1934

Chained (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) ends with a scene on an Argentine cattle ranch where Mike Bradley (Clark Gable), Yale 1926, is living with his divorcee bride, Diane (Joan Crawford). Diane opens a letter from the husband (Otto Kruger) she has just deserted and says to Mike: "Richard has gone to Maine for the summer." Mike Bradley's reply is intended to reveal him as a young man of generous and perceptive sentiments. "That's great," he says. "We'll send him some fancy beef for a barbecue."

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