Dangerous Paradise is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen and Warner Oland.
The film is an adaptation of Joseph Conrad's 1915 novel Victory, with the significant change of a happy ending introduced to the plot which acknowledged a similar change made in the 1919 silent film Victory directed by Maurice Tourneur.Moore p.176 As was common in the early years of sound, Dangerous Paradise was remade in several different languages by Paramount at the Joinville Studios in Paris.The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Dangerous Paradise
Plot
Cast Nancy Carroll as Alma Richard Arlen as Heyst Warner Oland as Schomberg Gustav von Seyffertitz as Mr. Jones Francis McDonald as Ricardo George Kotsonaros as Pedro Dorothea Wolbert as Mrs. Schomberg Clarence Wilson as Zangiacomo Evelyn Selbie as Mrs. Zangiacomo Willie Fung as Wang
References
Bibliography Moore, Gene M. Conrad on Film. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
External links
for the German-language version