Honor of the Family | |
Director: | Lloyd Bacon |
Based On: | from novel by Balzac |
Cinematography: | Ernest Haller |
Distributor: | First National Pictures A Subsidiary of Warner Bros. |
Runtime: | 66 minutes |
Language: | English |
Country: | United States |
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.
The film marked the sound-film debut for William, who would become a major Warner Bros. star over the next five years. It also marked Dita Parlo's first English-speaking role.
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."[1]
Honor of the Family is now considered to be a lost film, with no elements known to exist. The soundtrack, recorded separately on Vitaphone discs, survives.