The Wet Parade is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Robert Young, Myrna Loy, Walter Huston, Lewis Stone and Jimmy Durante.

In addition to the main story, many small vignettes illustrate the theme, such as a three-minute segment that documents the many steps in the creation of counterfeit imported liquor.

In 1916, Maggie May Chilcote of Louisiana looks after her heavy-drinking father Roger, tying his shoes for him and retrieving him when he makes a spectacle of himself in public.

Pow Tarleton, another drunkard who wasted his family resources, owns the hotel and his wife Bertha and their son Kip manage it.

At a lavish party thrown by the Chilcotes' cousins, whose bar is stocked by a boat from Bermuda, Roger is smitten with actress Eileen Pinchon.

At Eileen's speakeasy, a glamorous nightclub frequented by celebrities, Abe announces a raid, and the cops smash everything.

An ophthalmologist says that he has seen hundreds of cases like it since Prohibition began; some bootleggers have not removed the methyl mixed into the alcohol to render it undrinkable.

With Maggie about to give birth, Kip is kidnapped from the hospital by gangsters who plan to make his horrible death a warning.

At the hospital, Kip looks at his tiny son, “born into an awful mess...Before they pull him into it, I guess they'll have it all figured out.” The AFI catalog states that MGM paid $18,000[2] ($287,000 in 2020) for the rights to Upton Sinclair's novel.

In the book, Kip is killed, and Maggie May rallies the women of America for enforcement, financial support and community action.

"[6] Introducing the film in February 2020, Eddie Muller called it "an unusual mix of historical documentary, family melodrama and crime movie."