Honor of the Family

1931 film

For the 1912 silent film, see The 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 (1931-10-17)

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

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## Cast

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* 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

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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

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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]

## See also

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* List of lost films

## References

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1. ^ a b "Honor of the Family". Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
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.

## External links

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* Honor of the Family (1931) at IMDb

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