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Midnight

1939

Mitchell Leisen

Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Mary Astor ...

7.8

2,390

Comedy Eve Peabody (Claudette Colbert) is 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 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 ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Tom Milne Time Out	"It has a superbly malicious script by Brackett and Wilder, gorgeous sets and camerawork, and a matchless cast. All in all, probably Leisen's best film."	POS
United States	Frank S. Nugent The New York Times	"You'll have to take our word for it that it's fun. Most of the credit, of course, belongs to Miss Colbert. She has superb command of the comic style"	POS
United States	Variety	"Direction by Mitchell Leisen is generally satisfactory, although picture is slow in getting under way and has several spots that could be tightened."	NEU
United States	Don Druker Chicago Reader	"Beautifully crafted and thoroughly frivolous (...) Funny and forgettable."	NEU
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"As reliably — and stylishly — entertaining as anything made by the director's contemporaries."	POS
United States	LA Weekly	"One of the most well-turned, crisply paced comedies of the antic 1930s"	POS

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