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The Merry Jail
[Das fidele Gefängnis]
(1917)

Ernst Lubitsch directed this comedy that features Harry Liedtke, Kitty Dewall, Ossi Oswalda, Agda Nielson, Paul Biensfeldt, Erich Schönfelder, Käthe Dorsch, Emil Jannings and Ernst Lubitsch.

The Criterion Collection
2003 DVD edition

Trouble in Paradise (1932), black & white, ? minutes, not rated,
with The Merry Jail (1917), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

The Criterion Collection,
unknown catalog number, UPC 7-15515-01312-3
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; [?] German? language intertitles, [?] optional English? language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $39.95.
Release date: 7 January 2003.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD edition has likely been mastered from an archival 35mm print.

The film is likely presented with a custom music score.

Supplementary material includes an introduction to Trouble in Paradise by Peter Bogdanovich; audio commentary on Trouble in Paradise by author Scott Eyman; and a radio adaptation of Trouble in Paradise starring Lubitsch, Jack Benny, Claudette Colbert and Basil Rathbone.

This is the only home video edition of the film that we are aware of.

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Other silent era ERNST LUBITSCH films available on home video.

Other GERMAN FILMS of the silent era available on home video.

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