Part of Pre-Code Hollywood: Rules Are Made to be Broken
The divine Norma Shearer stars as an independent-minded young society woman who has been trained by her defence attorney father to live without restraint, and who grows trapped in a love triangle between the monied, kind Leslie Howard and the good-for-nothing rogue played by the delightfully evil Clark Gable.
Her father, loving but consistently sozzled, successfully defends the gangster against a murder rap, not realising that his beloved daughter is about to embark on a lusty affair with the reprobate.