Honor of the Family

Honor of the Family
Honor of the Family
Directed by	Lloyd Bacon
Written by	Lenore J. Coffee; James Ashmore Creelman; Roland Pertwee;
Based on	La Rabouilleuse play; by Émile Fabre from novel by Balzac
Starring	Bebe Daniels; Warren William; Alan Mowbray; Frederick Kerr;
Cinematography	Ernest Haller
Distributed by	First National Pictures: A Subsidiary of Warner Bros.
Release date	October 17, 1931;
Running time	66 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Honor of the Family is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film released by First National Pictures and starring Bebe Daniels and Warren William. It is based on the play by Emil Fabre from the Honoré de Balzac novel La Rabouilleuse.^[1]

The film marked the sound-film debut for William, who would become a major Warner Bros. star over the next five years.^[2] It also marked Dita Parlo's first English-speaking role.^[1]

Plot[edit]

Cast[edit]

Bebe Daniels as Laura
Warren William as Captain Boris Barony
Alan Mowbray as Tony Revere
Blanche Friderici as Madame Boris
Frederick Kerr as Paul Barony
Dita Parlo as Roszi
Allan Lane as Joseph
Harry Cording as Kouski
Murray Kinnell as Captain Elek
C. Henry Gordon as Renard
Carl Miller as Lieutenant Kolman

Reception[edit]

In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Andre Sennwald summarized Honor of the Family as "an average film, which the not too exacting will find mildly diverting."^[3]

Preservation status[edit]

Honor of the Family is now considered to be a lost film, with no elements known to exist.^{[citation needed]} The soundtrack, recorded separately on Vitaphone discs, survives.^{[citation needed]}

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "Honor of the Family". Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
^ Steinhagen, Jon (2010). "Talkers, Fast and Smooth: Lee Tracy and Warren William". In New England Vintage Film Society (ed.). Playbills to Photoplays. Xlibris Corporation. ISBN 978-1-4535-8775-1.
^ Sennwald, Andre (October 17, 1931). "Suggested by Balzac". The New York Times. p. 20.

External links[edit]

Honor of the Family (1931) at IMDb
synopsis at AllMovie

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[AFI-1] "Honor of the Family". Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved March 11, 2015.

[Steinhagen-2] Steinhagen, Jon (2010). "Talkers, Fast and Smooth: Lee Tracy and Warren William". In New England Vintage Film Society (ed.). Playbills to Photoplays. Xlibris Corporation. ISBN 978-1-4535-8775-1.

[3] Sennwald, Andre (October 17, 1931). "Suggested by Balzac". The New York Times. p. 20.

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