Dangerous Paradise (1931 film)

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Dangerous Paradise
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Directed by Rune Carlsten
Based on Victory by Joseph Conrad
Starring Elisabeth Frisk
Ragnar Arvedson
Production
company
Distributed byFilm AB Paramount
Release date
3 October 1931
Running time
72 minutes
CountriesSweden
United States
Language Swedish

Dangerous Paradise (Swedish: Farornas paradis) is a 1931 drama film directed by Rune Carlsten and starring Elisabeth Frisk and Ragnar Arvedson. It is now considered a lost film. It was produced and distributed by the Swedish subsidiary of Paramount Pictures at the company's Joinville Studios. It was one of a large number of multiple-language versions shot at Joinville during the early years of the sound era. It is a Swedish-language remake of the Hollywood film Dangerous Paradise based on the 1915 novel Victory by Joseph Conrad. [1]

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