Trouble in Paradise (1932)

Directed by

Ernst Lubitsch

Genre

heist film, romantic comedy, crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 23m

Rated

AL

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 314 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket team up as a couple. They decide to rob a wealthy perfume company owner, but complications arise when the thief starts to genuinely fall for their target.

playfulwittycharminglight-heartedromanticcleversophisticatedbreezy

What happens

Trouble in Paradise is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic comedy film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, and Herbert Marshall. Based on the 1931 play The Honest Finder (A Becsületes Megtaláló) by Hungarian playwright Aladár László, the lead characters are a gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket who join forces to con a beautiful woman who is the owner of a perfume company. In 1991, Trouble in Paradise was selected for preservation by the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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