Midnight – The Criterion Collection|Claudette Colbert

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Cover Notes: 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.

Extras: 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

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Even More Details: Language(s): English|Hard of Hearing Subtitles: English|Interactive Menu|Screen ratio 1 – 1.37:1|Mono