Click here to visit our new site --> CafeDVD 2.0 Lonely Wives: Pre-Code Hollywood #4 (1931) Rating: Starring: Edward Everett Horton, Esther Ralston Director: Russell Mack Category: Comedy, Classics, Classics Studio: Roan Group Subtitles: Length: 85 mins     In 1934, the Catholic Legion of Decency decided that Hollywood had gone too far. So that June, Will Hays and Joseph Breen were given the task of enforcing the Production Code. Lonely Wives was made before the "Hays Office" came into power, a fact that becomes quite obvious as soon as the picture gets underway. This 1931 sex farce, filled with as many sexual innuendoes and double entendres as the screenwriter could come up with, must've given the Catholic Legion of Decency fits. Based on an old German stage play, Lonely Wives stars Edward Everett Horton (Top Hat) in a dual role as Richard, a lawyer known as quite a womanizer; and as Felix, the Great Zero, a vaudeville impressionist who wants to add Richard to his list of impersonations. Over the course of the picture, as complication piles upon complication, Richard attempts to convince Laura La Plante to divorce her husband, who turns out to be Felix. Meanwhile, Richard's wife Madeline (Esther Ralston) returns early from vacation and spends the night with Felix, disguised as Richard. It'd be decades before Hollywood would attempt movies like this again.