Night In Paradise.
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Running time: 01:24:00.; Loosely based on Aesop's fables.; Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CBPF.; Screenplay by Ernest Pascal and Emmet Lavery; based on the novel "Peacock's feather" by George S. Hellman; music and lyrics by Frank Skinner and Jack Brooks.; [Cast:] Merle Oberon, Turhan Bey.
In 560 BC King Croesus of Lydia incurs the wrath of the sorceress Queen Attossa he had promised to marry, when he chooses the beautiful Delarai of Persia instead. Aesop, who believes that people only receive wisdom with age, arrived from the Isle of Samos in disguise of an old man with a hunch, a limp, and a cane. They fall in love with each other, but the people in the palace suspect something is going on with them.
In 560 BC King Croesus of Lydia incurs the wrath of the sorceress Queen Attossa he had promised to marry, when he chooses the beautiful Delarai of Persia instead. Aesop, who believes that people only receive wisdom with age, arrived from the Isle of Samos in disguise of an old man with a hunch, a limp, and a cane. They fall in love with each other, but the people in the palace suspect something is going on with them.
Credits
- Lubin, Arthur.
- Wanger, Walter.
- Pascal, Ernest.
- Lavery, Emmet.
- Hellman, George S.
- Skinner, Frank.
- Brooks, Jack, 1912-1971.
- Oberon, Merle.
- Bey, Turhan.
- Cast
- Merle Oberon, Turhan Bey, Gale Sondergaard
Copyright
11Apr46 L288, renewed 15Feb74 R570569 Renewal claimant: Leo A. Gutman, Inc Original author: Universal Pictures Company, Inc
Complete catalog record
NIGHT IN PARADISE. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., c1946. 10 reels, sd., color, 35 mm. From the novel "Peacock's Feather" by George S. Hellman. Credits: Producer, Walter Wanger; director, Arthur Lubin; screenplay, Ernest Pascal; music director, Frank Skinner; cameraman, Hal Mohr; film editor, Milton Carruth. Technicolor. © Universal Pictures Co., Inc.; 11Apr46; LP288.
Sources
- 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, length, color, sound, genre, catalog record
- BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE · record ↗ — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, description, credits
- United World Films, Inc. 16mm Sound Motion Pictures Catalog, 1954-1955 — title, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits
- Wikidata · Q7033621 ↗ — country
- U.S. Copyright Office, Catalog of Copyright Entries (renewals, 1970–1978) — copyright
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