Midnight

Blu-ray - 2025

Screwball comedy doesn't get any more effortlessly elegant and gleefully irreverent than this roulette wheel of romantic deception, gleaming with cunning wit and Continental elan. A couture-clad Claudette Colbert is divine as a penniless American showgirl who crashes Parisian high society by posing as a wealthy Hungarian baroness but both a scheming nobleman and a smitten taxi driver are soon on to her game. Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett's sophisticated script, a typically subversive blend of fairy-tale escapism and caustic social observation and the pitch-perfect direction of master craftsman Mitchell Leisen yield a topsy-turvy Cinderella story with a cynical bite.

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Subjects
Genres
Feature films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Romantic comedy films
Comédies romantiques (Films)
Published
[United States] : The Criterion Collection [2025]
Language
English
Other Authors
Mitchell Leisen, 1898-1972 (film director), Claudette Colbert (actor), John Barrymore, 1882-1942, Don Ameche
Edition
Criterion collection
Item Description
Title from sell sheet.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1939.
Wide screen (1.37:1).
Physical Description
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
Format
Blu-ray; wide screen (1.37:1) requires Blu-ray player.
Audience
Rating: Not rated.
ISBN
9798886072884
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