Trouble in Paradise (1932)

perfect, i think i’m gonna love lubitsch movies

Karsten

93 What the movies are all about - hot thieves scamming and then falling in love.

SilentDawn

This was made in 1932 for general audiences. What happened? when was America so sophisticated? and how could we have gone so far in the other direction? Peter Bogdanovich

Arta

"If I were your father, which fortunately I am not, and you made any attempt to handle your own business affairs, I would give you a good spanking - in a business way, of course." "What would you do if you were my secretary?" "The same thing." "You're hired."

Tim Brayton

"Darling, remember, you are Gaston Monescu. You are a crook. I want you as a crook. I love you as a crook. I worship you as a crook. Steal, swindle, rob. Oh, but don't become one of those useless, good-for-nothing gigolos." So charming, yet so devastating. Amorality is…

Filipe Furtado

There’s something almost otherworldly about how modern pre-code Hollywood can feel. From the humor to the acting to even the technical filmmaking, there’s so much at play here that still feels “hip”. So often we forget that, even 90 years ago, people were still scandalous…

Joel Haver

Watching one of Lubitsch Continental drawing room Pre-code masterpieces, like Trouble in Paradise (1932) or Design for Living (1933), feels now like witnessing a lost art. Witty, louche comedic gems where crime pays and creates sexual frisson. Theft goes unpunished and…

Channing Pomeroy

Here we have a typically sophisticated and fashionable comedy graced by the renowned Lubitsch 'Touch'; a film which wears its amorality as a badge of pride and notable for the quickfire wit and acting skills of Miriam Hopkins and Herbert Marshall as they portray jewel…

trolleyfreak

,,yes, that's all the trouble with mothers. first you like them and then they die"

mary