Paradise (1982)

Director:

Stuart Gillard

Writer:

Stuart Gillard (writer)

Release Date:

7 May 1982 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Romance

Tagline:

If Only It Could Have Been Forever...

Plot:

David and Sarah travel with a caravan from Baghdad to Damascus. At an oasis the white-slave agent 'Jackal' raids them...

Plot Keywords:

Oasis | Paradise | Caravan | Baghdad | Love

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Willie Aames	...	David
Phoebe Cates	...	Sarah
Tuvia Tavi	...	The Jackal
Richard Curnock	...	Geoffrey
Neil Vipond	...	Reverend
Aviva Marks	...	Rachel
Joseph Shiloach	...	Ahmed
Shoshana Duer	...	Bedouin Woman
Jerry Rosen	...	Jackals Bodyguard
Riki Halfon	...	Belly Dancer

Directed by
Stuart Gillard

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Stuart Gillard		writer

Produced by
Wendy Grean	....	co-producer
Robert Lantos	....	producer
Howard Lipson	....	executive producer
Bruce Mallen	....	executive producer
Lawrence Nesis	....	associate producer
Stephen J. Roth	....	producer

Original Music by
Paul Hoffert

Cinematography by
Adam Greenberg

Film Editing by
Howard Terrill

Production Design by
Claude Bonniere

Costume Design by
Mary Jane McCarty
Julie Whitfield		(as Julie Ganton)

Production Management
Eitan Alon	....	unit manager
Manon Bougie	....	production supervisor (as Manon Bougie Boyer)
Raz Haen	....	unit manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Nitzan Aviram	....	third assistant director
Zion Haen	....	second assistant director
Jim Kaufman	....	assistant director

Art Department
Ladislav Wilheim	....	property master

Sound Department
Yohai Moshe	....	boom operator
Eli Yarkoni	....	sound

Camera and Electrical Department
Avi Avrahami	....	electrician
Yoni Hamenachem	....	still photographer
Avraham Leibman	....	gaffer

Transportation Department
Michael Hartman	....	transportation manager

Other crew
Monique Champagne	....	script supervisor
Gene Corman	....	creative consultant
Alex Dukay	....	production coordinator
Harvey Edinoff	....	accountant
Gadi Levi	....	location manager
Danny Rossner	....	production coordinator
Zigler Zeev	....	crowd marshall

Production Companies

• AVCO Embassy Pictures
• Guardian Trust Company
• Moviecorp VI
• RSL Entertainment Corp.

Distributors

• Embassy Pictures Corporation (1982) (USA) (theatrical)
• Alliance Releasing Home Video (1980s) (Canada) (video)
• Globo Vídeo (Brazil) (VHS)
• MCA Home Video (1980s) (Canada) (video)
• MGM/UA Home Entertainment (VHS)
• Nelson Entertainment (video)
• New World Pictures (Canada)

Other Companies

• Dolby Laboratories  sound post-production

Runtime:

100 min | USA:90 min (Showtime Library Print)

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Singapore:R21 | Canada:R (Nova Scotia) | Iceland:L | Australia:M | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Finland:K-14 | South Korea:18 | USA:R | West Germany:12

Filming Locations:

Israel

Company:

AVCO Embassy Pictures

Trivia:

Phoebe Cates' film debut.

Soundtrack:

Paradise Theme

A Garden Of Eden Just Made For Two With Plenty To Mar Our Joys

Phoebe Cates made her screen debut with TV teen heartthrob Willie Aames in Paradise, a landlocked Blue Lagoon with unfriendly Arabs lurking on the borders of Paradise. It's definitely got some nice nude shots of both young performers to gratify the prurient.

The two young people are in Bagdad of 1823 then part of the Ottoman Empire and governed rather loosely from Istanbul. Cates is with her guardian who is your proper British official and Aames is the son of a bible thumping reverend and his wife. All of these people haven't a clue about where they're at, just an exaggerated sense of western superiority.

But the beautiful and nubile Cates has caught the attention of a sheik who's in the slave trade. He could get some good bucks for her or keep her as private stock. He and his people ambush the caravan, but the kids escape and come to a hidden oasis where they set up and play house.

The similarities to the Blue Lagoon are rather obvious even in the looks of the protagonists. But whereas those kids had been shipwrecked on their island since they were still in single digits in The Blue Lagoon, in Paradise these two young people already know the facts of life, it's just that they have that Protestant Christian upbringing.

The film was shot in Israel and the scenery is magnificent with and without Aames and Cates. Given that Aames is now a born again Christian he probably wants those male nude shots off the market, so hang on to your DVDs and VHSs.