Trouble in Paradise

Friday, April 18 - Sunday, April 20, 2014

Archival 35mm print

“It’s possible to prefer other Ernst Lubitsch films for their more serene stylings and more plangent emotions, but this 1932 production is probably the most perfectly representative of his works—the most Lubitschian Lubitsch. Herbert Marshall and Miriam Hopkins are a pair of professional thieves who fall in love while plundering the Riviera, but when Marshall falls under the spell of the wealthy Parisienne he intends to fleece (Kay Francis), their perfect relationship falters. The bons mots fly and an elegant immorality abounds, while beneath the surface the most serious kinds of emotional transactions are being made. With Edward Everett Horton, Charles Ruggles, and C.

Aubrey Smith; the screenplay is by Samson Raphaelson and Grover Jones.” – Dave Kehr

• Country USA
• Year 1932
• Running Time 83 minutes
• Director Ernst Lubitsch

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