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

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."^[3]

Preservation status

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]}