REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 29, 4 February 1935, Page 9

REGENT THEATRE

! “CHAINED.” < MMro-Goldwyn-Mayer prodne non Chained, ' now showing at th. Regent, is a film of outstanding merit and provides outstanding entertain ment. Both the principals, Clark Gable and Joan Crawford, have already established a splendid reputation for themselves in the screen world, and the quality of their performance in the present film undoubtedly brings them fresh laurels. But although due praise must be given them, Otto wruger as Richard Field portrays the New York business man and husband l»„ Wh > Om / I J ,SS I . Crawf ort as Diane Laierly, finds herself so unfortunately Chained, with such rare skill tha’t his performance also calls for special X 1":.?!" F"' 1 "’ as thc iuepreafn/th Joinnic,’ is to be commended lor the admirable manner in which he h ’ 9 very subtle witticisms, and for the sincerity of his hero-wor-sh,p for Mike Bradley, which part is so splendidly taken by Mr. Gable. The film is fast moving, covering a a diversity ot scenes, and interspersed with a very refreshing humour. There arc however, some dramatic moments, when the beautiful Diane breaks one man’s indebud S f a ' e a 10 wh<)m she is indebted, from suffering. The tenseness bv M° Se n m' iaS ’ ho ' vever . is dispelled ri Ga s e S e °K a 8 ln g personality, and after the somewhat dramatic conni» U „ e o nCeS | haVB bee “ brave >y faced bv D \ s h ?PP’ ness is unexpectedl'v achmved for the three people concerned. Onginally named “Sacred ami Frofano Love”—that is to say, before the purity swept devastatingly over America, engulfing Hollywood en passant—the story was written expressly for the Crawford-Gable partnership. With the polished and increasingly popular Otto Kruger well cast as the other man,” a rich gentlemanly, mid-dle-aged New Yorker, also in love with Joan, the story takes on dramatic