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film

The Wiser Sex is a American pre-Codecrimedrama film directed by Berthold Viertel and Victor Viertel and starring Claudette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas, Lilyan Tashman, William "Stage" Boyd and Ross Alexander.

Made by Paramount Pictures, its working title was The Weaker Sex.

Clyde Fitch'splay was first filmed by Famous Players' in as The Woman in the Case, directed by Hugh Ford and starring Pauline Frederick.

Famous Players–Lasky's production, The Law and the Woman, directed by Penrhyn Stanlaws and starring Betty Compson, was also based on Fitch's play.

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It is the film debut of Franchot Tone and the final film of stage veteran Effie Shannon.

Plot

After prosecutor David Rolfe (Douglas) has racketeer Benny Morgan arrested, mobster Harry Evans (Boyd) gives orders to his chauffeur (Dumbrille) to kill David, but the chauffeur fails.

The next day, David's fiancée, Margaret Hughes (Colbert), leaves on a cruise with Jimmy O'Neill (Alexander), her frien