Midnight - The Criterion Collection

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 élan. A couture-clad Claudette Colbert is divine as a penniless American chorus girl who crashes Parisian high society by posing as a wealthy Hungarian baroness - but both a scheming nobleman (John Barrymore) and a smitten taxi driver (Don Ameche) 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.

Special Features

Bonus Footage, Commentary: Michael Koresky (author/film critic)., Program featuring audio excerpts of a 1969 interview with director Mitchell Leisen; Lux Radio Theatre adaption of the film from 1940; Essay by David Cairns (film critic); New cover by Abigail Giuseppe., Trailers

Actors: John Barrymore, Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, Hedda Hopper, Francis Lederer, Mary Astor

Audio Languages: English

Duration: 94 minutes

Number of Discs: 1

Subtitle Languages: English

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