Midnight - The Criterion Collection|Claudette Colbert

Product Code: CC3688BDUK

EAN: 5061088920111
Catalogue Code: CC3688BDUK
Title: Midnight - The Criterion Collection,
Principle Contributor: Claudette Colbert
Contributors: Mitchell Leisen, Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, Claudette Colbert, John Barrymore, Don Ameche, Arthur Hornblow Jr., Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, Frederick Hollander, Charles Lang, Claudette Colbert, John Barrymore, Don Ameche, Francis Lederer, Mary Astor, Hedda Hopper
Genre: Classic
Produced by Label/Studio: Criterion Collection, 1939
Published by: Spirit Entertainment, 14 Jul 2025
Format: Blu-ray / Restored,
Media: 1 disc(s)

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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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

More Details: High Definition extras tbc

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

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