Review of Trouble in Paradise (1932) by Allan C — 31 Dec 2012

An elegant and charming comedy from director Ernst Lubitsch. Herbert Marshall and Miriam Hopkins are con artists who team up to do a job on rich lady, Kay Francis, but romantic entanglements muddy the waters and confuse the scheme.

This film was made before the studio production code, so there's racier of humor than you see in most older films. Because of this, the film was not shown or distributed again until the 1970s and even then it wasn't release on home video until at 2000.

However, it's the film's intelligence, wit and charm that set it above most similar films. It's not a screwball comedy, but a witty, adult comedy. When people say, they don't make movies like that anymore, this is certainly an example of the type of film you no longer made.

This film typifies the "Lubitsch Touch.".