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Miriam Hopkins,
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Ernst Lubitsch,
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: Not Rated
: Criterion
: Classics, Comedies, Classic Comedy, Romantic Comedy, Classic Comedy, Pre-Code, Precode, Criterion Collection
: 82 min.
: English
: English
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Ernst Lubitsch used Laszlo Aladar's play The Honest Finder as a springboard for one of his most delightful early-'30s Paramount confections. Herbert Marshall and Miriam Hopkins play Gaston and Lily, a pair of Parisian thieves, both disguised as nobility, who decide to rob lovely perfume company executive Mariette Colet (Kay Francis); Gaston gets a job as Mariette's confidential secretary, while Lily installs herself as the woman's typist. Love rears its head, forcing Gaston to choose between marriage to Mariette and a fast getaway with Lily. Filled with marvelous throwaway gags and sophisticated innuendo, Trouble in Paradise was described by one critic as "as close to perfection as anything I have ever seen in the movies." ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Special Features:
- Commentary by Lubitsch biographer Scott Eyman
- New video introduction by director Peter Bogdanovich
- Ernst Lubitsch's silent film Das fidele Gefangnis (The Merry Jail, 1917)
- 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
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by jweisberg
November 1, 2005 - 8:18 PM PST
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2 out of 2 members found this review helpful
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Trouble in Paradise seems, in today's atmosphere, to be no trouble at all.
It is a thoroughly delightful film exhibiting all the skills of the art in a straight foward non self-conscious manner.
Tension builds, but it is free of anxiety ; personal difficulties are free of complicated moods like depression, and there is a twinkle in the hero's eye throughout ; a charming, fun and bubbly experience. |
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by talltale
July 16, 2005 - 5:47 AM PDT
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4 out of 4 members found this review helpful
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Having seen "Ninotchka" years ago, and "Heaven Can Wait" and "That Uncertain Feeling" more recently, I was relatively convinced of Ernst Lubitsch's legendary "touch." But now that I've seen TROUBLE IN PARADISE, I really get it. What a master of the urbane, stylish, and subtly sexy he was! Working here with screenwriter Samson Raphaelson, from an adaptation by Grover Jones of a play by Aladar Laszlo, the director and his cast polish this piece beyond gleaming. The dialog is throw-away perfection; it keeps taking you by utter surprise.
Looking back on what I've seen of Lubitsch, I believe it's his embrace of everything positive in life (including sex, you bluenoses!) that makes us root for his characters and so love his films. He understands how precious, how splendid human beings--with all our foibles--can be, and he shares this with us via comedy, romance, thievery, glamour and--omigod--infidelity. How much better, more original, more surprising, does it get? Herbert Marshall, Miriam Hopkins and Kay Francis were never among my favorites, but they've zoomed to the top based on their work here. Frances, in particular, is so appealing that she turns the "other woman" into someone more wonderful than I would have believed possible. Save this one for a night that will be--and a companion who is--really special. |
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