Strictly Dishonorable

Strictly Dishonorable is a 1931 romantic comedy film directed by John M. Stahl, starring Paul Lukas, Sidney Fox and Lewis Stone, and featuring George Meeker and Sidney Toler. It was written by Gladys Lehman and based on Preston Sturges' 1929 hit Broadway play of the same name. Strictly Dishonorable was Sturges' second play on Broadway, and his first to be filmed for the silver screen. As a film made before the advent of the Production Code, the film-makers were able to preserve the cheerfully uninhibited sexual innuendo of the Sturges play in their movie version, which he is said to have... unofficially endorsed. Snubbish, quick-tempered Henry Greene and his fiancee Isabelle Perry stop into a New York speakeasy owned by Tomasso Antiovi for a drink. There, they meet retired Judge Dempsey , an amiable man who befriends the Southern belle, much to Henry's dismay. Famous opera singer "Tino Caraffa", a charming but notorious playboy whose real name is "Gus" Di Ruvo, is there as well, and while Henry is gone to move his illegally parked car, Gus and Isabelle, an opera fan, get acquainted.
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