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Dangerous Paradise

  • 1930
  • Passed
  • 58m
IMDb RATING
5.5/10
134
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Dangerous Paradise (1930)
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Heyst, a hermit on his own tropical island, plays unwilling host to red-headed stowaway Alma. Danger looms...Heyst, a hermit on his own tropical island, plays unwilling host to red-headed stowaway Alma. Danger looms...Heyst, a hermit on his own tropical island, plays unwilling host to red-headed stowaway Alma. Danger looms...

  • Director
    • William A. Wellman
  • Writers
    • Joseph Conrad
    • William Slavens McNutt
    • Grover Jones
  • Stars
    • Nancy Carroll
    • Richard Arlen
    • Warner Oland
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.5/10
    134
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • William A. Wellman
    • Writers
      • Joseph Conrad
      • William Slavens McNutt
      • Grover Jones
    • Stars
      • Nancy Carroll
      • Richard Arlen
      • Warner Oland
    • 6User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
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    Nancy Carroll and Richard Arlen in Dangerous Paradise (1930)
    Nancy Carroll and Richard Arlen in Dangerous Paradise (1930)
    Nancy Carroll in Dangerous Paradise (1930)
    Nancy Carroll and Richard Arlen in Dangerous Paradise (1930)
    Nancy Carroll and Richard Arlen in Dangerous Paradise (1930)
    Nancy Carroll and Richard Arlen in Dangerous Paradise (1930)
    Nancy Carroll and Richard Arlen in Dangerous Paradise (1930)
    Nancy Carroll and Richard Arlen in Dangerous Paradise (1930)
    Nancy Carroll and Richard Arlen in Dangerous Paradise (1930)
    Dangerous Paradise (1930)
    Nancy Carroll in Dangerous Paradise (1930)
    Nancy Carroll in Dangerous Paradise (1930)

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    Nancy Carroll
    Nancy Carroll
    • Alma
    Richard Arlen
    Richard Arlen
    • Heyst
    Warner Oland
    Warner Oland
    • Schomberg
    Gustav von Seyffertitz
    Gustav von Seyffertitz
    • Mr. Jones
    Francis McDonald
    Francis McDonald
    • Ricardo
    George Kotsonaros
    • Pedro
    Dorothea Wolbert
    Dorothea Wolbert
    • Mrs. Schomberg
    Clarence Wilson
    Clarence Wilson
    • Zangiacomo
    • (as Clarence H. Wilson)
    Evelyn Selbie
    Evelyn Selbie
    • Mrs. Zangiacomo
    Willie Fung
    Willie Fung
    • Wang
    Mrs. Wong Wing
    • Mrs. Wang
    Stanley Fields
    Stanley Fields
    • Steamer Captain
    • (uncredited)
    Lillian Worth
    Lillian Worth
    • Myrtle
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • William A. Wellman
    • Writers
      • Joseph Conrad
      • William Slavens McNutt
      • Grover Jones
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    • Trivia
      At Paramount's foreign studio in Joinville, France four alternate language versions were filmed: in French, Italian, Polish and Swedish.
    • Connections
      Alternate-language version of Dans une île perdue (1931)
    • Soundtracks
      SMILING SKIES
      (uncredited)

      Written by Richard A. Whiting

      Lyrics by Leo Robin

      Sung by Nancy Carroll

    User reviews6

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    6/10
    Everyone Wants Nancy Carroll
    Nancy Carroll is a violinist in an all-girl band on Surabaya, where she is the object of lust for sexually predatory Clarence Wilson and Warner Oland. That's actually taken from Joseph Conrad's VICTORY, although I doubt he had Wilson and Oland in mind when it became his first commercially successful book in 1915. She stows away on Arlen's boat to get away from them, where Nancy gets predatory about him, while he doesn't seem to be interested, possibly because his voice hasn't yet broken.

    Director William Wellman puts in a lot of tricks, with a long tracking shot of the goings-on of Oland's tawdry 'casino', and an adventurously noisy first half of the movie, where the sounds of the orchestra, crowds, some woman laughing and other people singing threaten the dialogue. 1930 heard the talkies come of age, with some noisy movies (like the battle sequences of ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT) like this one. Clearly sound was no longer a novelty, but part of the design of telling a story; the noise of 'civilization' on Surabaya is in contrast to to the quiet on Arlen's island. Wellman was one of the directors of the era who thought that motion pictures should move, and sound pictures should have sound.

    Paramount produced versions of this movie in six languages. While alternate-language versions were a common phenomenon of the time, before dubbing was perfected, to maintain foreign markets, clearly this was seen as an important movie. Its release at less than an hour indicates that something had gone wrong. While it appears a bit too brisk, that's the limit of it so far as I can see, and that briskness is due to its short length. Perhaps preview audiences didn't care for it, so the Paramount brass had it cut down.
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • February 13, 1930 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • Spanish
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Two Against Death
    • Filming locations
      • Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA(Studio)
    • Production company
      • Paramount Pictures
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    • Runtime
      58 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.20 : 1

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