Honor of the Family

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.

Cast

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

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."

Preservation status

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.