Rent Trouble in Paradise (1932)
3.9 of 5 from 137 ratings
1h 23min
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- Synopsis:
- When career thief Gaston Monescu (Herbert Marshall) meets glamorous pickpocket Lily (Miriam Hopkins), their love soon takes on a professional dimension as they initiate a plot to rob beautiful perfume magnate Mariette Colet (Kay Francis). But as Gaston gets ever closer to his intended prey, his romantic confusion, as well as the threat that his past will catch up with him, throws their plan into jeopardy.
- Actors:
- Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall, Charles Ruggles, Edward Everett Horton, C. Aubrey Smith, Robert Greig, Leonid Kinskey, George Humbert
- Directors:
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Producers:
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Writers:
- Aladar Laszlo, Samson Raphaelson, Grover Jones
- Studio:
- Eureka
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy, Romance
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Reviews (1) of Trouble in Paradise
Lubitsch Classic. - Trouble in Paradise review by Steve
The Baron (Herbert Marshall) and the Countess (Miriam Hopkins), share a romantic supper in his swanky hotel in Venice. But soon they tumble each other as fellow con artists. After they have returned their stolen trinkets, they move to Paris together and steal a diamond covered handbag from a rich perfumer (Kay Francis).
Marshall finagles a job as the tycoon's secretary and develops romantic feelings for her while embezzling a fortune from the company. But Hopkins wants him for herself. It's a love triangle, except two of the lovers are kleptomaniacs trying to gyp the third, and each other.
Marshall is very much at home in Ernst Lubitsch's Paris. But it's Hopkins film, in a performance that goes a long way to establishing a female archetype of the screwball comedy, with her blend of the ditzy, impulsive and volatile.
The dialogue is witty and the farce is adorable. But it's also a comedy of manners which refers to Trotsky and the wages of the poor. Surprising and imaginative at every twist this is the last word on the sophisticated comedy which was Lubitsch's gift, set in the romantic destinations of Europe, places of irony, charade and repartee. And scandal.
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