Honky Tonk is a 1941 American historical western comedy drama film directed by Jack Conway and starring Clark Gable and Lana Turner.

The supporting cast features Claire Trevor, Frank Morgan, Marjorie Main, Albert Dekker and Chill Wills.

Con man "Candy" Johnson and his friend "Sniper" flee town using quick wits and magic tricks.

When Candy brings the judge home, Elizabeth berates him for getting her father drunk and being a bad influence.

He breaks down the door only to tell her "goodnight" and then storms off to have a "private" dinner with Gold Dust.

Upon hearing the news, the judge asks Elizabeth how Candy acquired the wealth to build her a mansion.

MGM was looking to make Turner its replacement for the deceased platinum beauty Jean Harlow and therefore cast her alongside the "King of Hollywood" himself, Clark Gable.

Turner was thrilled at the opportunity of working with Gable, but he was not, as she was twenty years his junior and quite green to the world of Hollywood.

Nevertheless, the pairing proved successful, and their steamy scenes together were unnerving to almost everyone, including Gable's wife Carole Lombard.

Lombard had a habit of making surprise visits to the sets and was noticeably present during the bedroom scene with Turner and Gable.

While Turner always vehemently denied rumors that she and Gable were involved in an affair, only going as far as to say she was quite smitten with him but looked up to him as more of a father-figure than anything else, it has always been speculated that a Turner-and-Gable affair had something to do with Lombard's last-minute decision to take a plane back to Los Angeles rather than a train, resulting in the crash which took her life.

Turner claimed that the only time she and Gable ever saw each other outside of a professional environment was in the months following Lombard's death.

Theodore Strauss of The New York Times described the film as mostly "a crowd-catching midway exhibit in which Miss Turner gives a competent, if limited, performance and Mr. Gable again shows off his muscles.

"[4] Variety, however, called the performances "uniformly good" and noted that the screenplay "though padded a bit and still open to cutting, is excellent for this action picture purpose".

[5] Film Daily wrote, "Both Gable and Miss Turner give ace accounts of themselves in the leads, and there are some slick bits by their fellow players ... Jack Conway's two-fisted direction makes for solidity and realism, and Harold Rosson's photography is expert.