Midnight

This is one of the films at Paramount (with EASY MONEY & REMEMBER THE NIGHT) that Mitchell Leisin was criticized by the screenwriters (Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett, and Preston Sturgis) for altering the pacing or direction of the screenplays.... Full review

There are few films that can be seen often without the viewer tiring of them. Midnight is one of them. It glides effortlessly through the tinsel and magical world of barons and down-on-their heels showgirls without taking a mean shot... Full review

"Midnight" was one of the best pictures released in 1939. This delightful comedy was directed by Mitchell Leisen, based on a screen play by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. One can see the influence of Wilder in the way the... Full review

Break out the night vision goggles, the pick-axe, and the compass to find this one if you haven't seen it. I caught it at the MOMA cinema in the old museum basement and laughed so hard I was in tears... Full review

Brilliant wit and clever exposition abound in the screenplays of Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, and are nowhere more plentiful than in the Cinderella inspired, MIDNIGHT (1938). This often overlooked charmer was the first hit in their long and immensely... Full review

Quite delightful. Surprised it's not better known. Has been called "The first great Brackett and Wilder screenplay." Fantastic costumes too. Billy Wilder was frustrated that the director was more interested in the style and look of the movie (which is... Full review

Why this simply marvelous comedy is not hailed as a screwball classic standing shoulder to shoulder with "It Happened One Night," "The Awful Truth," and "My Man Godfrey," and just under "Bringing Up Baby," is utterly beyond me. Claudette Colbert... Full review

"Midnight" is superb in every way - cast, direction, script are all perfection. It's like Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro" in the way its plot adds complication upon complication and just as "Figaro" is a perfect opera, so this is a... Full review

Although languishing in obscurity in comparison to other great films of 1939, Midnight is a classic that deserves to be ranked among the best comedies. In this sophisticated twist on the Cinderella story, a penniless showgirl (the incomparable Claudette Colbert)... Full review

This is a wonderful film in which Eve Peabody, a homeless would-be blues singer, is allowed into the elite Parisian society by Barrymore. While posing as the Baroness Czerny of Hungary, Tibor Czerny (Ameche), a cab driver,not royalty, pursues the... Full review

If you appreciate old screwball comedies, you will love Midnight . Astor has the throw away role of unfaithful wife. to the final one, that I cannot tell you as it would spoil the ending, you will laugh the entire film. ... Full Review

Here's my quick list of some notable DVD releases that got squeezed out of Sunday's summer movie preview: Universal Cinema Classics - Well, actually these are classic Paramount titles that have been owned by Universal for the past 50 years... ... Full Article

Universal Pictures is set to develop a remake of the 1939 film Midnight as a starring vehicle for Reese Witherspoon.Michael Arndt, who won an Oscar earlier this year for his screenplay for Little Miss Sunshine, is writing the script. ... Full Article

Reese Witherspoon has signed up to star in a remake of the Claudette Colbert classic "Midnight" (1939). Reese Witherspoon is ready to break into the " Midnight " now that Universal Pictures has revealed plans to develop a remake of... ... Full Article

LOS ANGELES -- Reese ready to stay up until "Midnight." Mark Wahlberg knows what's "Happening" with M. Night Shyamalan. Plus, baby Shiloh's Hollywood debut? It's all in today's Access Hollywood Casting Call? ... Full Article

In the original 1939 movie, which was directed by Mitchell Leisen ( Hold Back the Dawn ), Claudette Colbert starred as Eve and Don Ameche as the taxi driver Tibor Czerny. ... Full Article