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."
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide