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Dangerous Paradise is a american film of genre Drama directed by William A. Wellman released in USA on 13 february 1930 with Nancy Carroll
Dangerous Paradise (1930)
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Add to a movie listDangerous 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. 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.
Actors
Nancy Carroll
(Alma)
Richard Arlen
(Heyst)
Warner Oland
(Schomberg)
Gustav von Seyffertitz
(Mr. Jones)
Francis McDonald
(Ricardo)
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