Trouble in Paradise [Criterion Collection]
Features:
- 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
View menus
- Side #1 --
- Play the Movie
- Peter Bogdanovich Introduction
- Chapters
- Commentary
- Commentary by Scott Eyman: On
- Commentary by Scott Eyman: Off
- Index
- Early Career
- Openings
- Hopkins & Marshall
- Hays Office
- Writing the Script
- Kay Francis
- Casting/Scoring
- Gaston, Lily & the Depression
- Morality
- Renaissance Man
- Hans Dreier/Travis Banton
- "Immersed in the Essential"
- Battle
- Sound & Image
- 1932/Samson Raphaelson
- Prestige
- "Let Them Add It Up"
- Critical Response
- Billy Wilder/Censors
- After the Code
- Production History
- "Like Aligns With Like"
- Differing Opinions
- Color Bars
- "Das Fidele Gefängnis"
- Play
- Tribute to Ernst Lubitsch
- "Screen Guild Theater" Radio Program
- Play Program
- Introduction
- "I'm Not Gonna Beg"
- Claudette Colbert
- "The Better Man"
- The Butler
- Coda
View chapters
- Side #1 --
- 1. Opening Credits
- 2. "Beginnings Are Always Difficult"
- 3. "Everybody Talking Shop"
- 4. "Tonsile"
- 5. "Who Are You?"
- 6. Colet & Company
- 7. Two Suitors & a Thief
- 8. Reward
- 9. "Phooey, Phooey & Phooey!"
- 10. "A Member of the 'Nouveau Poor'"
- 11. "You're Hired"
- 12. Monsieur La Valle Takes Charge
- 13. Sex Appeal in a Safe
- 14. "Goodnight, Monsieur La Valle"
- 15. "Who Is This Monsieur La Valle?"
- 16. Insinuations
- 17. "Have You Ever Been in Venice?"
- 18. "Are You Staying Out Late?"
- 19. "Shut Up. Kiss Me."
- 20. "Positively Tonsils"
- 21. Confessions
- 22. "Compliments of Colet & Company"
- 23. Once a Thief...
- 1. Color Bars
Year released: 1932
MPAA Rating: [ NR ]
Format: Black & White
Length: 82
Sound: DD1
Subtitles: Eng
Studio: Criterion