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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| Location | Call Number | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Floor | BLU-RAY/Midnight | Due Jul 22, 2025 |
- Subjects
- Genres
- screwball comedy
Romantic comedy films
Screwball comedy films
Feature films
Fiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Comédies romantiques (Films)
Comédies loufoques (Films)
Films de fiction - Published
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[Irvington, NY] :
The Criterion Collection
[2025]
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
- Corporate Author
- Other Authors
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- Edition
- Blu-ray special editon ; Blu-ray edition
- Item Description
- Based on a story by Edwin Justus Mayer and Franz Schulz.
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, region A; wide screen (1.37:1) requires Blu-ray player.
- Production Credits
- Music, Friedrich Hollander ; cinematography, Charles Lang Jr. ; editor, Doane Harrison.
- ISBN
- 9798886072884
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