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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 9781559409292
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 1559409290
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 07, 2003
Running Time: 82 minutes
Sales Rank: 26918
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: October 21, 1932
Editorial Review:
Description:
When thief Gaston Monescu (Herbert Marshall) meets his true love in pick-pocket Lily (Miriam Hopkins), they embark on a scam to rob lovely perfume company executive Mariette Colet (Kay Francis). But when Gaston becomes romantically entangles with Mme. Colet, their larcenous ruse is jeopardized and Gaston is forced to choose between two beautiful women. Legendary director Ernst Lubitsch's masterful touch is in full flower Trouble in Paradise, a pinnacle of the sophisticated romantic comedy, loaded with sparkling dialogue, witty innuendo, and elegant comic invention.
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Trouble in Paradise is the supreme example of 'the Lubitsch touch,' that mastery of comic timing, diamond-cutter precision, and Continental sophistication that made Ernst Lubitsch a household name and the real star of every movie he directed. A pair of prodigiously talented, utterly charming scoundrels (Herbert Marshall, Miriam Hopkins) become personal assistants to an aristocratic Parisian widow (Kay Francis). Their target is her fortune, but she's such an elegant lady, and so agreeably smitten with her new right-hand man, that he's tempted to pursue a secondary objective. Marshall, Hopkins, and Francis aren't remembered as major stars, but in this enchanted moment they are sublime. Likewise the peerlessly pixilated Edward Everett Horton and Charlie Ruggles as the widow's stuffed-shirt suitors. Trouble in Paradise is one of the best comedies ever made. There's not a line, word, or pause that doesn't belong exactly where it is, when it is, as it is. --Richard T. Jameson
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Enchanting comedy!
One of the most delightful movies I have seen. Sophisticated comedy of the sort that rarely appears nowadays. Vintage Ernst Lubitsch; terrific acting by Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, and Herbert J. Marshall in his salad days. Witty, naughty, and never vulgar -- produced just before the Hayes Code was enacted. Also, the most glorious gold evening dress, worn by Miriam Hopkins. I saw this movie on Netflix and bought it because I wanted to have a copy.
Rating: - Trouble in Paradise by Ernst Lubitsh
This movie is the very best classic movie ever!!! The story the actors and most of all "The Lubitsch Touch". I own many classics this being my all time favorite .I watach this at least once a year. It is a fun and classy film with incredible dialogue if only we had movies like this today !!!!Criterion did a stellar job even quoting some of the most famous directors praising this movie and of course a Peter Bogdonavich intro.Please watch this with a glass of champayne and be transported to the 1930's ... Read More
Rating: - Paradise, indeed
Pre-code Lubitsch in all its sophisticated, spicy, saucy, cynical, morally ambiguous glory. Fans of early Astaire-Rogers will love Trouble in Paradise. Those who know Miriam Hopkins only as a foil for Bette Davis will be delighted with her comic timing. Kay Francis, as the sexually liberated widow, is totally wonderful, Elmer Fudd lisp and all. Herbert Marshall, Bette Davis' betrayed husband in The Letter, is throughly convincing as a charming gentleman thief. Two superb character actors, Charlie ... Read More
Rating: - Darling, do you remember the man who walked into the Bank of Constantinople
....and walked out with the Bank of Constantinople? Main character, Gaston Monascu (Herbert Marshall) cheekily asks Lily Vautier(Miriam Hopkins) - his seconds-to-be-beloved in crime & love making.
I AM SO HAPPY THIS MAGNIFICENT FILM IS FINALLY AVAILABLE ON DVD!!!! If you don't love this movie - you must be dead already.
Lubitsch films should be shown to those who are feeling suicidal for they imbue such an intense heady love of life they are a cure-all to any malaise. After ... Read More
Rating:  - "If you behave like a gentleman, I'll break your neck!"
Trouble in Paradise is a great example of a sophisticated pre-code. It revolves around some thieves played by Herbert Marshall (Gaston) and Miriam Hopkins (Lily). Gaston manages to steal a wealthy woman's purse (Kay Francis) and when she offers a reward for its return, he goes to her and not only secures her trust, but gets a job managing her finances. This is the perfect setup for him and his girlfriend, but when he begins to fall in love with his benefactor, there is trouble.
The high-class ... Read More
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