Honor of the Family
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| Honor of the Family (1931) | |
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| Directed by | Lloyd Bacon |
| Written by | Lenore J. Coffee James Ashmore Creelman Roland Pertweebased on the play by Émile Fabre and the story by Honoré de Balzac. |
| Starring | Bebe Daniels Warren William Alan Mowbray Blanche Friderici Frederick Kerr |
| Cinematography | Ernest Haller |
| Distributed by | First National Pictures: A Subsidiary of Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | October 17, 1931 |
| Running time | 66 min. |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
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Honor of the Family is a 1931 dramatic film released by First National Pictures, (a subsidiary of Warner Bros.) in 1931. It was based on the play by Emil Fabre, from a story by Honoré de Balzac.
[edit] Film
In this swashbuckling melodrama, set in Budapest, a seductive gold-digger (Bebe Daniels) becomes the mistress of a wealthy old man (Frederick Kerr). She, with the assistance of her gigolo lover, a swordsman (Alan Mowbray), soon comes to rule his house and keeps her elderly husband's family in line by intimidating them. Her ploys work well until the old man's nephew (Warren William) comes back from the Foreign Legion and boots her out of the house and kills her gigolo lover.
[edit] Trivia
- This was the talkie debut for Warren Williams who would become one of the major Warner Bros. stars for the following five years.
- This was Bebe Daniels's first film for Warner Bros. She had recently left Radio Pictures, who had failed to renew her contract due to a backlash against musicals.
[edit] Preservation
The film is believed to be lost. Only the soundtrack, which was recorded separately on Vitaphone disks, survives.
