Transcript for original trailer for Children of Paradise french film

Once in a decade, a great picture is made, and this time, out of the genius of France has come a picture about people like you and me.

People who live and die. People who love and suffer.

Yes, Soon you will see Children of Paradise.

A masterpiece of storytelling. An absorbing tale of human experience, shared by clowns, beggars, murderers, and good and bad women.

With Pierre Renoir as Gericault, the soul stirring toll spender.

and Arletty as Jéricho, the promiscuous lover of many men.

and brilliant Jean-Louis Barrault, pantomimest, clown, actor par excellence!

Here is what New York's severest critics think of Children of Paradise:

Crowded with love-making, Children of Paradise brings you, in vivid reality,

the punchy stories of romantic Paris in the heyday of the last century.

Children of Paradise, combining in a potent concoction, the price of love, the ruthlessness of crime,

and the sensuousness of dark rapture. It makes a magnificent movie you will want to see over and over.

Don't fail to see this truly great film! This extraordinary work of art.

This lusty masterpiece of love.

Don't miss Children of Paradise!