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After a millionaire practical joker dies, his fortune is divided among four heirs who must carry out his zany instructions to cash in.After a millionaire practical joker dies, his fortune is divided among four heirs who must carry out his zany instructions to cash in.After a millionaire practical joker dies, his fortune is divided among four heirs who must carry out his zany instructions to cash in.
Ronald Adam
- Mr. Wagstaffe - Bank Manager
- (as Ronald Adams)
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- TriviaAudrey Hepburn was originally offered one of the major female roles in this film, but was committed to a stage play and had to turn it down. She ended up with a bit role playing a sexy cigarette girl instead.
- GoofsWhen the newspaper headline shows Herbert Russell foiling the bank robbery, there are two headlines of other articles on the newspaper page from when Herbert was in a train earlier and saw the headline of a bank robber being sent to jail.
- Quotes
Agnes Russell: It should not be necessary for people to die in order to have their photograph dusted.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Audrey Hepburn Remembered (1993)
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One of the Great Sim's great roles--and a fine film to boot
This classic of comedy and drama stars Alastair Sim, the peerless character comedian, and Fay Compton, a versatile stage actor of considerable range. The Laughter coming from Paradise emanates from a recently deceased eccentric (madcap Hugh Griffith) who follows the efforts of his four competitive heirs, for all of whom he has set different but embarrassing tasks to perform to qualify for an inheritance. Alastair Sim and Fay Compton have the choicer roles. Alastair Sim's ludicrous dilemma leads into a bravura comic performance. His bewildered and peeved fiancée is played by the exceptional Joyce Grenfell. Fay Compton's unsympathetic character becomes an occasion for exquisite acting in this film. Young George Cole, one of Mr & Mrs Sim's real-life protégés, handled comedy nearly as deftly as the master, and Cole is still appearing in films 75 years after his celluloid debut. Cole's role as a sincere but insecure lad is the polar opposite of sly and suave Guy Middleton, the fourth of a quartet of prospective heirs. Kudos to supporting players Ernest Thesiger and Eleanor Summerfield. Audrey Hepburn made her English-language movie debut in this film as a cigarette girl in a supper club, and Anthony Steel, on the brink of becoming a star hunk, had a larger and romantic role. Laugher in Paradise defies genre. It offers character studies, by turn hilarious and poignant. An unqualified 10 from this fan
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- fcullen
- Apr 20, 2014
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- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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