DVD
Trouble in paradise
Call Number
- DVD COMEDY (CEN)
Edition
Full screen version.
Languages
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Performers
Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall, Charlie Ruggles, Edward Everett Horton, C. Aubrey Smith, Robert Greig.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2003]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
When thief Gaston Monescu meets his true love in pickpocket Lily, they embark on a scam to rob lovely perfume company executive Mariette Colet. But when Gaston becomes romantically entangled with Mme. Colet, their larcenous ruse is jeopardized and Gaston is forced to choose between two beautiful women.
Notes
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1932.
Based on the play by Laszlo Aladar.
Special features: audio commentary by Lubitsch biographer Scott Eyman; new video introduction by Peter Bogdanovich; Lubitsch's 1917 short film Das fidele Gefängnis; 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; program notes by Armond White and Enno Patalas inserted in container.