Part one of term paper
In The Marriage Circle, One Hour With You, and Trouble in Paradise Lubitsch towered above anybody, creatively . . . he was the greatest craftsman whoever lived . . . in the sense of knowing the most brilliant and original way to use the medium . . . His talent and originality were stupefying . . . Lubitsch was cerebrally was beyond the or ...

Part two of term paper
... director; he was a National director. As a director, he “demonstrated the subtle humor and the virtuoso visual wit that would in time become known as ‘The Lubitsch Touch.’” (www.his.com/~scottb/lubitsch/biography.html). His style was characterized by a parsimonious compression of ideas and situations into single shots or brief scenes that provided an ironic key to the characters and the meaning of the entire film. In his early films, The Marriage Circle (1924), One Hour With You (19 ...