The Demi-Paradise
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The Demi-Paradise (also known as Adventure for Two) is a 1943 comedy film made by Two Cities Films and distributed by Universal Pictures. It was directed by Anthony Asquith and produced by Anatole de Grunwald and Filippo Del Giudice from a screenplay by de Grunwald. The music score was by Nicholas Brodszky and the cinematography by Bernard Knowles.
The film starred Laurence Olivier and Penelope Dudley Ward with Leslie Henson, Marjorie Fielding, Margaret Rutherford, Felix Aylmer, , Joyce Grenfell, Jack Watling, John Laurie, Miles Malleson, Wilfrid Hyde White and George Cole.
The film is a gentle satire on the values the English hold so dear. The film's title is a reference to John of Gaunt's famous speech in Richard II which begins:
- This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle,
- This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
- This other Eden, demi-paradise
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Ivan Kouznetsoff (Laurence Olivier) is a Russian inventor in England to promote his new special icebreaker propeller device. He is put off by English customs and manners - or, rather, the lack of them. No one in 1939 England trusts a foreigner, least of all one of those shifty "Reds", but when Russia and England become allies against the Nazis, he is welcomed with open arms. Ann (Penelope Dudley Ward), his suspicious landlady ends up falling in love with him.
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