The Wiser Sex (1932)

Claudette Colbert and Melvyn Douglas costar in this pre-Code drama, based on a play by Clyde Fitch, about a woman who attempts to save her fiancé, a district attorney who crosses a mobster (William Boyd) and gets framed for murder, by befriending the seductive moll (Lilyan Tashman) who is central to the crime and proving who the ‘wiser sex’ really is.