The Garden of Eden

Nearly a century after its big screen debut, director Lewis Milestone’s The Garden of Eden returns in a new Blu-ray Disc edition from Flicker Fusion, featuring the 2025 restoration by the San Francisco Film Preserve, the George Eastman Museum, and the Library of Congress, while offering a new score by Stephen Horne and Frank Bockius.

Corinne Griffith headlines as ingénue Toni LeBrun, who leaves her family’s humble bakery to follow fame and fortune in Budapest as an opera singer. That dream shatters however when she finds herself a cabaret chorus girl working for the delightfully menacing Madame Bauer (Maude George). Taken under the wing of the cabaret’s seamstress, Rosa (Louise Dresser), Toni is caught in the whirlwind of glamorous Monte Carlo, winding up in a love triangle between her charming suitor Richard Dupont (Charles Ray) and his determined uncle.

Boasting gorgeous production design by William Cameron Menzies, The Garden of Eden was originally released with an early Technicolor dream sequence that, unfortunately, has been lost to time. Utilizing archival research and rare still photographs, this new release includes a reconstruction of that missing three-minute sequence.

BONUS MATERIALS INCLUDE:

• Audio Commentary - Harlow Robinson, author of Lewis Milestone: Life and Films, offers an in-depth behind the scenes look at the production of The Garden of Eden and the incredible life of Milestone
• 5.1 Surround & 2.0 Stereo DTS-HD Master Audio Options - On the new score composed and performed by Stephen Horne and Frank Bockius
• Syncopating Sue (1926) - A restored fragment of director Richard Wallaces’ lost romantic comedy starring Corinne Griffith. This new restoration arrives courtesy of the San Francisco Film Preserve, in collaboration with the National Film Archive - Audiovisual Institute, Warsaw, Poland
• The Inimitable Corinne Griffith: The Orchid Lady of the Screen (2026) - A visual essay from historian David Pierce, narrated by Claire Lockhart, that explores the life of The Garden of Eden’s beguiling star
• Restoration Demo - A short look at the painstaking process of scanning and preserving the available elements, including two surviving 35mm nitrate reels
• Image Gallery - Featuring production stills and promotional material
• Booklet Insert - Featuring a new essay by Harlow Robinson, exploring the making of The Garden of Eden
  
• Optional Language Tracks - English language intertitles with optional subtitles on the main feature in Dutch, French, German, Irish, Italian, and Spanish
• Blu-ray Authoring by David Mackenzie of Fidelity in Motion
• All Region Encoding (A,B,C)