Tonight's Movie: Honky Tonk (1941) - A Warner Archive Blu-ray Review

HONKY TONK (1941), an excellent example of '40s MGM star power, was just released on Blu-ray by the Warner Archive Collection.Clark Gable stars as Candy Johnson, a con man of sorts who arrives in a new frontier town with his partner Sniper (Chill Wills) and promptly falls head over heels for young Elizabeth (Lana Turner), whom he'd first met on the train.Elizabeth believes her father (Frank Morgan), whom she hasn't seen in years, is a respectable judge, but he's actually an old friend of Candy's who has a crooked past himself.Candy gradually wins over Elizabeth, especially after he donates money to a church, and they marry, to the dismay of her father.It's a long, winding road to Candy and Elizabeth finding happiness, not to mention Candy finding honesty, but by the end of the movie's 105 minutes, they seem to finally have made it.The screenplay was written by Marguerite Roberts and John Sanford and a host of uncredited contributors, including James Edward Grant.The story honestly…