High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Chained is a 1934 motion picture directed by Clarence Brown, and starring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable and Otto Kruger. The plot concerns a kept woman who finds herself drawn to a charismatic South American rancher while aboard a cruise, all the while still harboring feelings for her married lover back home. The screenplay was written by John Lee Mahin, which was based upon a story by Edgar Selwyn. Chained is the fifth of eight cinematic collaborations between Crawford and Gable.