
Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line, for a beautiful penthouse apartment. Mark Whitney, a wealthy and influential lawyer can make her dreams come true, but there is only one problem, he will give her everything but a marriage proposal. Will this affair ever lead to marriage?... (Full plot summary below)
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Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line, for a beautiful penthouse apartment. Mark Whitney, a wealthy and influential lawyer can make her dreams come true, but there is only one problem, he will give her everything but a marriage proposal. Will this affair ever lead to marriage?
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| User ReviewLee Anne WJoan Crawford is amazing. "Down by the railroadtracks drinking champagne." |
| User ReviewCaleb MOne of my favorite movies, and among the best of the kept woman romances of pre-code. |
| User ReviewJohn Gi don't know why i stopped on this the other day when it was on, but got totally sucked into it. it was just a good really old movie. |
| User ReviewOrlok Wgood romantic melodrama not to be confused with the bette davis pic of the same name |
| User ReviewNathan DCrawford and Gable - how can one complain - enjoyable austerity. . . designed for the . . . message of prison reform, honesty and probation and a happy ending. |
| User ReviewRick RPossessed (1931) This is a great pre-code melodrama about a poor girl from the wrong side of the tracks trying to make it big. Marian Martin (Joan Crawford) sees how the other half lives from window scenes in a passing railroad car, and resigns to getting some of that, by any means possible. She moves to the big city and becomes the mistress to a successful lawyer, Mark Whitney (Clark Gable). She falls for the dog, but Mark isn't the marrying kind. On top of that, Marian is still not really accepted by rich society anyway. It gets a little preachy, but generally a good movie. This is one of Crawford's best with her showing off her complete range of strong, vulnerable, nice, and bitchy. Gable is his trademarked strong self as far as male romantic leads go, who have previously, traditionally been, well, kind of feminine. Gable's Mark character is a man's man and yet could be romantic, when called for, which made him a favorite with both women and men. Crawford saw this in Clark Gable early on and had him star in a lot of her movies. I think that Possessed was later remade in 1947 with Joan Crawford doing Van Heflin. |
| User ReviewJennifer HJoan Crawford plays a woman who finds her poor, working man (Wallace Ford) boring and wants to leave him. She does and travels by train to New York, where she meets a successful lawyer (Clark Gable). They eventually wed, only for Joan to discover that her prior man becomes rich as an infrastructure builder. Odd, unbelievable drama by especially todays' standards seems silly, but is not too bad due to the presence of Gable. Not Crawford's greatest performance. Definitely her best ones came later. |
| User ReviewSteve WMelodramatic romance film finds Joan Crawford as a factory worker who meets a drunk rich guy, and he invites her into the city another time and then ditches her. Clark Gable dates her but won't marry her because he has been hurt, throw in some political stuff and its an average film with n memorable bits. |
| User ReviewChris .Boring movie with Joan Crawford and Clark Gable. I guess Crawford plays a poor factory worker who somehow comes across some wealth by marrying a guy or something, I lost interest about ten minutes in and didn't pay much attention afterwards. And it's weird seeing Clark without his 'stache. |