Trouble in Paradise with Miriam Hopkins: DVD Cover

    Trouble in Paradise Director: Ernst Lubitsch Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall, Charlie Ruggles

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    • DVD Release Date: 01/07/2003
    • Original Release: 1932
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 5,815

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    New digital transfer, with restored image and sound; Audio commentary by Lubitsch biographer Scott Eyman ("Ernst Lubitsch: Laughter in Paradise"); New video introduction by director Peter Bogdanovich; Ernst Lubitsch's silent film "Das fidele Gefängnis" ("The Merry Jail," 1917), with Emil Jannings, featuring a new score recorded exclusively for this release; 1940 "Screen Guild Theater" radio program featuring Ernst Lubitsch, Jack Benny, Claudette Colbert, and Basil Rathbone; Tributes to Lubitsch, written by Billy Wilder, Leonard Maltin, Cameron Crowe, Roger Ebert, and others; English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired; Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    1. Opening Credits
    2. "Beginnings Are Always Difficult"
    3. "Everybody Talking Shop"
    4. "Tonsile"
    5. "Who Are You?"
    6. Colet & Company
    7. Two Suitors & a Thief
    8. Reward
    9. "Phooey, Phooey & Phooey!"
    10. "A Member of the 'Nouveau Poor'"
    11. "You're Hired"
    12. Monsieur La Valle Takes Charge
    13. Sex Appeal in a Safe
    14. "Goodnight, Monsieur La Valle"
    15. "Who Is This Monsieur La Valle?"
    16. Insinuations
    17. "Have You Ever Been in Venice?"
    18. "Are You Staying Out Late?"
    19. "Shut Up. Kiss Me."
    20. "Positively Tonsils"
    21. Confessions
    22. "Compliments of Colet & Company"
    23. Once a Thief...
    1. Color Bars

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    Editorial Reviews

    Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, the master of sophisticated comedy, Trouble in Paradise (1932) is the most accomplished example of the "Lubitsch Touch" for stylish innuendo and sly wit. With a script by Samson Raphaelson and Grover Jones, Lubitsch derives sparkling humor from the lusty (Pre-Code) love triangle among two jewel thieves, Lily and Gaston, and their intended victim, Mme. Colet. From the opening image of a garbage gondola's gliding through the picturesque Venice canals, Lubitsch makes light of the notion that amorality lies beneath the glossy exteriors of the rich. Elegantly sending up idealized movie romance, Gaston and Lily fall in love as they attempt to rob each other blind over an intimate dinner, sealing a bond between two scoundrels. Such Lubitsch details as a hand's hanging a "Do Not Disturb" sign on a doorknob and the shadow of a couple cast on a bed neatly communicate the nature of Gaston's relationships with Lily and Mme. Colet, complementing the clever dialogue, spiked with nimble come-ons and ripostes, and delivered with aplomb by Herbert Marshall, Miriam Hopkins, and Kay Francis. Praised for its smoothly imaginative technique and comic invention, Trouble in Paradise burnished Lubitsch's reputation as Paramount's premier purveyor of 1930s Continental class, and it is still considered one of the best adult comedies ever made. Lucia Bozzola All Movie Guide

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    August 02, 2004: this is my favorite ernst lubitsch film by far. this movie stars kay francis, miriam hopkins and herbert marshall. it is a wonderful pre-code movie about two thiefs and a rich widower. this movie certainly has the hard to pinpoint 'lubitsch touch' by creating a world where there are such things are self made crooks and a honest theif exists in good fun only. no melodrama here. the clothes are beautiful and the dialogue quick and witty. this is a must see. it is amazingly refreshing film.