A Trip to Paradise (1921)
Drama | 5 September 1921
Director:
Maxwell KargerWriters:
June Mathis, Benjamin F. GlazerCinematographer:
Arthur MartinelliProduction Designer:
Julian GarnseyProduction Company:
Metro Pictures Corp.A studio chart in the 16 Apr 1921 Camera noted that A Trip to Paradise was in its first week of production.
For information on other adaptations of the play Liliom, please consult the entry for the 1956 Twentieth Century-Fox film, Carousel, directed by Henry King and starring Gordon MacRea and Shirley Jones. ...
A studio chart in the 16 Apr 1921 Camera noted that A Trip to Paradise was in its first week of production.
For information on other adaptations of the play Liliom, please consult the entry for the 1956 Twentieth Century-Fox film, Carousel, directed by Henry King and starring Gordon MacRea and Shirley Jones.
Curley Flynn is a successful barker at Coney Island near the entrance to the Widow Boland's "Trip to Paradise" concession. Nora O'Brien, whose aunt operates a photograph gallery, captures Curley's heart, and he loses his job when the widow learns she has a rival. When Curley and Nora are out late one evening, she accepts his offer of marriage rather than return home. Mrs. Smiley makes him her partner, but the business does not thrive, and he is about to accept the widow's offer to leave his wife and return to his former job when he learns his wife is with child. Desperate for money, he is shot while helping to rob a house; in the hospital he has a vision of heaven, where his case is tried: he is sent back to earth to live for his wife and ...
Curley Flynn is a successful barker at Coney Island near the entrance to the Widow Boland's "Trip to Paradise" concession. Nora O'Brien, whose aunt operates a photograph gallery, captures Curley's heart, and he loses his job when the widow learns she has a rival. When Curley and Nora are out late one evening, she accepts his offer of marriage rather than return home. Mrs. Smiley makes him her partner, but the business does not thrive, and he is about to accept the widow's offer to leave his wife and return to his former job when he learns his wife is with child. Desperate for money, he is shot while helping to rob a house; in the hospital he has a vision of heaven, where his case is tried: he is sent back to earth to live for his wife and child.
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