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Title Trouble in paradise / Universal ; a Paramount picture ; Paramount Publix Corporation ; Paramount presents an Ernst Lubitsch production ; directed by Ernst Lubitsch ; screenplay by Samson Raphaelson ; adapted by Grover Jones.

Publication Info. [New York] : Criterion Collection, [2003]

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 Moore Video  PN1995.9.L6 T768 2003    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
 Moore Video  PN1995.9.L6 T768 2003  guide    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Description 1 DVD (82 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (10 page folded-out ; 19 cm).
Physical Medium plastic
4 3/4 in.
Description digital
optical
mono
Dolby digital
video file
DVD video
Motion pictures
Series The Criterion collection ; 170
Criterion collection ; 170.
System Details DVD; RSDL dual-layer disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio; Dolby digital mono.
Cast Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall, Charlie Ruggles, Edward Everett Horton, C. Aubrey Smith, Robert Greig.
Credits Photography, Victor Milner ; music, W. Franke Harling (feature), Aljoscha Zimmerman (Das fidele Gefängnis) ; lyrics, Leo Robin.
Audience MPAA: Not rated.
Note Based on the play, The Honest Finder, by Laszlo Aladar.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1932.
Full screen (1.33:1).
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"--Container.
Note Special features: Peter Bogdanovich introduction; optional audio commentary by Lubitsch biographer Scott Eyman (2002); Das fidele Gefängnis = The merry jail (1917 silent film by Lubitsch, with music added in 2002 by Aljoscha Zimmerman); Tribute to Ernst Lubitsch; Screen Guild Theater radio program (from October 20, 1940, featuring Ernst Lubitsch, Jack Benny, Claudette Colbert, and Basil Rathbone).
Contents Trouble in paradise -- Das fidele Gefängnis = The merry jail / Ernst Lubitsch.
Awards Named to the National Film Registry in 1991 by the Library of Congress.
Language In English, with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired (SDH).
Subject Aladar, Laszlo -- Film adaptations.
Thieves -- Drama.
Thieves.
Genre/Form Drama.
Subject Love -- Drama.
Love.
Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
Man-woman relationships.
Genre/Form Fiction films.
Feature films.
Comedy films.
Film adaptations.
Romantic comedy films.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Film adaptations.
Drama.
Added Author Lubitsch, Ernst, 1892-1947, film director, field director.
Jones, Grover, 1893-1940, adapter, adapter.
Raphaelson, Samson, 1896-1983, screenwriter, screenwriter.
Hopkins, Miriam, 1902-1972, actor, actor.
Francis, Kay, 1905-1968, actor, actor.
Marshall, Herbert, 1890-1966, actor, actor.
Ruggles, Charlie, 1886-1970, actor, actor.
Horton, Edward Everett, actor, actor.
Smith, C. Aubrey (Charles Aubrey), 1863-1948, actor, actor.
Greig, Robert, 1879-1958, actor, actor.
Harling, W. Franke (William Franke), 1887-1958, composer (expression), composer.
Robin, Leo, writer of added lyrics.
Milner, Victor, 1893-1972, director of photography, cinematographer.
Eyman, Scott, 1951- commentator, commentator.
Bogdanovich, Peter, 1939-2022, commentator, commentator.
Motion picture adaptation of (work): Aladar, Laszlo. Honest finder.
Paramount Publix Corporation, production company, production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
Note Disc title: Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in paradise
Added Title Fidele Gefängnis.
Merry jail.
ISBN 1559409290
9781559409292
Standard No. 715515013123
Music No. CC1581D Criterion Collection