- HD 1080
- Runtime: 77m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Archie Mayo
- Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, James Rennie, Ricardo Cortez, Natalie Moorhead, Charles Butterworth
- keywords: husband wife relationship, upper class, marriage, coercion, pre-code, manipulative lover, ex-boyfriend ex-girlfriend relationship, premarital sex, daughter–in–law father–in–law relationship
- Production_studio: The Vitaphone Corporation, Warner Bros. Pictures
- Slogan: Married love or illicit. Which does the modern girl prefer?
- The Illicit is featured in the top rankings of 1931
- #32 in Top Romance Movies of 1931
- #50 in Top Drama Movies of 1931
Ann, a young woman with outrageously advanced ideas, has been living in sin with Dick, her lover, because of her conviction that marriage would destroy their love; but social pressure ends up paying off, so Ann and Dick get married.