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    Dec 07, 2023 5 minutes

    Honor Among Lovers

    Directed by DOROTHY ARZNER

    Starring CLAUDETTE COLBERT, FREDRIC MARCH, MONROE OWSLEY

    Blu-ray/DVD

    Released 11 DECEMBER

    “With a girl like her by their side, no man would care what the market did,” says Jerry (Fredric March) of his secretary Julia (Claudette Colbert), introducing the two entangled forces – love and capitalism – that power Honor Among Lovers, a lightweight but enjoyable romantic drama about a love triangle unfolding against the backdrop of 1920s Wall Street. Jerry, charming and cocksure, has fallen for Julia, and makes no attempt to conceal his inappropriate workplace advances. Unconvinced, she dismisses him, marrying the somewhat weaselly Philip (Monroe Owsley) instead.

    Julia wants stability, but no man seems to be able to offer it to her, and while the plot advances over a series of mishaps and misfortunes, this pre-Code film seems to offer a critique of the

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