Line #1 Film/Illicit


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2	[[caption-width-right:350: Stanwyck is PrettyInMink.]]
3	''Illicit'' (1931) is a [[UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra pre-Code]] drama starring Creator/BarbaraStanwyck, James Rennie, and Ricardo Cortez, and directed by Archie Mayo.
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5	The story follows lovers Ann (Stanwyck) and Dick Ives (Rennie) who don't care that they're [[ValuesDissonance having sex out of wedlock]]. Ann doesn't care to be wed because she knows that love dies when one marries. Dick, on the other hand, thinks that maybe marriage isn't so bad. Pressured by his father and rumours that float around, they get hitched but, lo and behold, troubles soon follow the marriage.
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7	This was Stanwyck's first film for Creator/WarnerBros. Creator/JoanBlondell has a small part as "Duckie", one of Ann's society friends.
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10	!!Tropes:
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12	* TheAlcoholic: PlayedForLaughs with Georgie (Clive Butterworth). He's always trying to procure liquor or stealing some.
13	-->'''Ann''': Georgie, haven't you stopped drinking yet?\
14	'''Georgie''': I've practically stopped; I've tapered down to two quarts a day.
15	* AwfulWeddedLife: It's what Ann fears if she gets married. And it ''is'' what happens.
16	* TheCasanova: Price is one, but he really is disappointed when he hears that Ann is getting married.
17	* CastFullOfRichPeople: In this film made in the depths of the Great Depression, all the characters are the members of the New York jet set, who have winter and summer homes and get their weddings written up in the society pages.
18	* DeadpanSnarker: Duckie which is of no surprise since she's played by Creator/JoanBlondell.
19	* DoubleStandard: Of the cheating heart edition where it’s okay for a man to cheat when he’s bored of his wife but not for the woman.
20	* GoingCommando: Duckie apparently does this. She says that wearing underwear is old-fashioned.
21	* HaveAGayOldTime: This nice exchange using the nickname for Richard…
22	-->You know I’ve gone after Dick once or twice!
23	-->I’ve always been in love with Dick!
24	-->I happen to love Dick!
25	-->I came here for Dick’s sake!
26	* {{Hypocrite}}: Dick goes out with Margie at least twice and is also caught kissing her. But when he finds Price Baines in Ann's apartment, he flips out, and their trial separation becomes a real one.
27	* {{Old Flame}}s: Ann and Dick each have one in the persons of Price Baines and Margie True. Each comes sniffing around after Ann and Dick start living separately again.
28	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: When never learn Duckie’s real name.
29	* ProductPlacement: A line in the opening credits says "''Brunswick'' radios used exclusively." Sure enough, later in the movie a character is shown tuning a radio with the Brunswick logo prominently displayed.
30	* SeriousBusiness: Being seen together on a romantic weekend in Connecticut is apparently a huge, huge deal, causing Dick, when he hears that the word is out, to demand that either they get married or break up. Ann picks the first option.
31	* UnrevealAngle: We don't get to see what was revealed when Georgie opened the door, but by everyone's reaction, apparently Georgie and Duckie and Ann all saw Dick and Margie kissing.

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