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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN.
EAN: 0025193312921
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 22, 2008
Running Time: 95 minutes
Sales Rank: 4515
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: March 15, 1939
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Academy Award® winners* Claudette Colbert Don Ameche and John Barrymore light up the screen in Midnight - one of the best romantic comedies from the Golden Age of Hollywood. The fun begins when a penniless showgirl (Colbert) impersonates a Hungarian countess and with the help of an aristocrat (Barrymore) quickly adapts to her new lifestyle. But can she stop herself from falling in love with yet another poor man (Ameche)? Written by Academy Award® winners** Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett Midnight has been hailed as 'just about the best light comedy ever caught by the camera!' (Motion Picture Daily)System Requirements:Running Time: 95 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY/SCREWBALL COMEDY Rating: NR UPC: 025193312921 Manufacturer No: 61033129
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Although Hollywood's golden year of 1939 is best remembered for Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz, it was also a banner year for sophisticated screen comedy, and Mitchell Leisen's Midnight is a deliciously prime example. Screenwriters Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett were in peak form when they concocted this smooth confection about Eve Peabody (Claudette Colbert), an American showgirl in Paris who is out of work, money, and luck when a handsome cabbie (Don Ameche) offers to drive her around the City of Light to search for employment as a nightclub chanteuse. Nobody's hiring, but Eve has a better plan: posing as a Hungarian countess, she smuggles her way into Parisian high society and suddenly finds herself in the lap of luxury, commissioned by a wealthy aristocrat (John Barrymore) to seduce a French playboy (Francis Lederer) away from Barrymore's not-so-loyal wife (Mary Astor). While Eve is living it up at the Ritz Hotel and enjoying trips to Versailles, Ameche's on a mission to find her and declare his true love.
Class distinction, infidelity, false identity... these were daring ingredients for a 1939 comedy, and Midnight (a casebook display of Paramount's shimmering studio style of the '30s) is as fresh today as it was when first released. The silky perfection of the Wilder-Brackett screenplay is expertly served by Leisen (a director who deserves ranking with Ernst Lubitsch and Preston Sturges), and Colbert is merely the brightest star in a flawless cast of screwball veterans. Poking fun at the elite was a Wilder-Brackett specialty, and Barrymore is particularly savvy to the material, giving a performance that's simultaneously sly, desperate, and hilariously inspired. The plot is so elegantly executed that Midnight makes most comedies of later decades look pale in comparison. Gone are the days, it seems, when sophistication, wit, and good taste were an integral part of Hollywood comedy. Midnight offers all of those qualities in abundance, making it a perfect antidote to the crudeness that dominates mainstream comedy at the turn of the millennium. --Jeff Shannon
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Rating: - "Don't forget...every Cinderella has her midnight." And Midnight is one of the best of the screwball comedies
If "Midnight" as a title seems puzzling, think Cinderella. Except this time our Cinderella is a gold digger with a self-defeating habit of falling for poor taxi drivers. She's also one of the foxiest, funniest and sexiest young ladies in Paris. No staying at home to sweep out the hearth for her. Midnight, released in 1939, was one of the last of the great romantic screwball comedies that Hollywood had learned how to make during the Thirties. Somehow, it was nearly forgotten while others were treasured. ... Read More
Rating: - From the moment you looked at me, I had an idea you had an idea
In the 1939 film MIDNIGHT, Claudette Colbert is Eve Peabody a chorus girl stranded in Paris on arrival, and Baroness Czerny of Hungary by the next day. She is her typical headstrong, street-smart woman who knows her way around the world, or so she thinks.
Upon meeting Tibor Czerny(Don Ameche) a cab driver with a big heart, eager to help poor, lost Eve, she realizes she must get in with the high society of Paris and fast!
John Barrymore is fantastic as Georges Flammarion ... Read More
Rating:  - midnight
We plan on watching for the third time, a fantastic good old fashion comedy. Wish we could educate our present society to learn how to enjoy a movie without using a bunch of cuss word.
Rating: - COOKY COMEDY
This is one of those funny stories that can only happen in a movie! But it's very entertaining, fast moving and recommended to any old Hollywood movie buffs.
Rating: - Midnight Shines as Madcap Comedy
Midnight is a very funny movie in the vein usually associated with Preston Sturgis. The comedy is what we used to call "adult" back when the movie was new, but there is nothing to offend the average person and a great deal to charm and amuse. It is perhaps not the very best of its genre, but it is certainly very good.
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