Midnight (1939) (Blu-ray) (UK Import)

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Country of origin:: USA, 1939
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Item number:: 12292080
UPC/EAN:: 5061088920111
Release date:: 14.7.2025
Series:: Criterion Collection
Genre:: Komödie
Playing time ca.:: 94 Min.
Director:: Mitchell Leisen
Actor:: Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Mary Astor
Film music:: Frederick Hollander
German title:: Enthüllung um Mitternacht
Language:: Englisch
Subtitles:: Englisch

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.

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
New audio commentary featuring author and film critic Michael Koresky
New program featuring audio excerpts of a 1969 interview with director Mitchell Leisen
Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film from 1940
Trailer
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by film critic David Cairns
New cover by Abigail Giuseppe