New digital transfer, with restored image and sound Audio commentary by Lubitsch biographer Scott Eyman ("Ernst Lubitsch: Laughter in Paradise") New video introduction by director Peter Bogdanovich Ernst Lubitsch's silent film "Das Fidele Gefängnis" ("The Merry Jail," 1917), with Emil Jannings, featuring a new score recorded exclusively for this release 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 English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition
[Criterion Collection] Audio: DD1
Rating: NR Genre: Comedy Release Date: 01/07/2003 SubTitles: English Dubbed: English Sound: DD1 Run Time: 82 Minutes Flags: Adult Situations Distributor/Studio: Criterion
Ernst Lubitsch used Laszlo Aladar's play The Honest Finder as a springboard for one of his most delightful early-'30s Paramount confections. Herbert Marshall and Miriam Hopkins play Gaston and Lily, a pair of Parisian thieves, both disguised as nobility, who decide to rob lovely perfume company executive Mariette Colet (Kay Francis); Gaston gets a job as Mariette's confidential secretary, while Lily installs herself as the woman's typist. Love rears its head, forcing Gaston to choose between marriage to Mariette and a fast getaway with Lily. Filled with marvelous throwaway gags and sophisticated innuendo, Trouble in Paradise was described by one critic as "as close to perfection as anything I have ever seen in the movies."