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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal Studios
EAN: 0025193312921
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Universal Studios
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglishSubtitledFrenchSubtitled
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
MPN: 61033129
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 22, 2008
Running Time: 94 minutes
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 1939
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Product Description:
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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I don't recall why I started out looking for old Don Ameche movies, but based on so many positive reviews here, this was the one I chose first. I am so glad I did. I've watched the DVD at least a dozen time since I received it, and I haven't tired of it. I love the characters, the plot, the settings and costuming.
Colbert's Eve Peabody is beautiful, elegant, quick-thinking, and willing to take chances, whatever the consequences. She yearns for financial security but somehow always ... Read More
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I sure do enjoy films like this! This is one of those silly old movies that never made me laugh out loud, but I had an amused smirk on my face practically the whole time.
I never really knew how to define a screwball comedy before, but this movie illustrates the genre perfectly. The whole plot is so ridiculously mixed up it's hard to even describe it! Suffice it to say that there is good acting and clever plot/lines throughout.
If you like old romantic comedies a la Preston ... Read More
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Lost in the shuffle among 1939's greatest films, "Midnight" is a thoroughly delightful romantic comedy set in the glamour of Paris. Director Mitchell Leisen's stylish masterpiece benefits from Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett's brilliantly perceptive screenplay. The entire cast is marvelous, with Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche and John Barrymore at their absolute best. Highly recommended.
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Someone has already mentioned that Midnight is the greatest romantic comedy nobody has seen. Too true!
This is a delightful, lighter-than-air romp. The cast, sets, costumes and direction are flawless, topped only by the wit of the screenplay and Barrymore's hysterical performance. Was he drunk during filming? Was he parodying hmself? Does it matter? He's fabulous!
I happened to catch a badly cut up version of this on late night TV years ago and have adored it ever since. ... Read More
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This is a great classic movie. John Barrymore steals the show. Very enjoyable. I highly recommend this movie to all. Don Ameche, Claudette Colbert, Mary Astor and John Barrymore.
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