Kick-Back Friday: #33

Trouble in Paradise

(1932): All's fair in love and con artistry when two thieving soulmates, Gaston and Lily, pair up to scam a perfume heiress, Madame Colet. There's plenty of naughty repartee in this early talkie, before the MPAA production code was duly enforced.

Gaston: Madame Colet, if I were your father, which fortunately I am not, and you made any attempt to handle your own business affairs, I would give you a good spanking, in a business way, of course.
Madame Colet: What would you do if you were my secretary?
Gaston: The same thing.
Madame Colet: You're hired.

Although the movie is considered an Ernst Lubitsch classic, just about anybody could imagine a Coen Brothers remake with George Clooney.

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