Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

weezeralfalfa In general, I don't like Hitchcock-like thrillers, and this is no exception. I found the screenplay rather boring ,on the whole, with some major questionable aspects, as follows: 1) The mysterious voice that keeps popping up certainly did not sound like Rex(Harrison) nor like Natasha Parry(Peggy). In fact, it didn't sound clearly like a man or women, but something in between. 2) Peggy's supposed involvement in pushing Kit(Doris) in front of the bus doesn't look possible. I didn't see her standing in back of Doris, among the crowd looking to board the bus. Rather, a short time later, she comes barging through the thick crowd behind where Doris was. How did she get back there so quick if she did the pushing? 3)I thought Peggy's husband was in Singapore in the navy, or do I have the wrong neighbor in mind? 4)Why did Kit keeping listening to the phone messages by the stalker, instead of slamming the phone down as soon as she recognized the voice? 5)Why did Rex bother with the stalker voice if he wanted to kill Kit because he needed her inheritance and because he was having an affair with Peggy, and wanted Kit out of the way before she discovered the affair and divorced him? Presumably, he wanted to drive Kit out of her mind(which he did) so that her death might be chalked up as a suicide, if done right......Things sure got complicated at the end, with both Rex and Peggy's husband on the prowl. Good thing John Gavin(Brian) showed up every now and then to comfort or save Kit......See it at YouTube or on DVD.

mark.waltz After watching Doris Day deal with a KKK husband in "Storm Warning", the pain of a kidnapped son in "The Man Who Knew Too Much" and a psychotic husband in the dismal "Julie", watching her being stalked by someone presumably with the intent of killing her is painful to watch. It isn't that this is a bad movie; It is incredibly suspenseful. But how much suffering and tears can a woman take? She truly fears for her life, from even before the opening credits when a shrill voice haunts her from the fog and tells her that she's going to die. Wealthy British businessman husband Rex Harrison has given Doris pretty much everything she could ask for, the glamorous life and a wardrobe to die for. Decked out to die, so it seems, because every time she answers the phone it appears that the grim reaper has come calling. Fortunately, her beloved aunt Myrna Loy comes to make sure she's OK, yet it appears that Loy knows something. Or could it be handsome stranger John Gavin? Slimy housekeeper's son Roddy McDowall (obviously guilty of elder abuse in addition to being a suspect) who openly threatens her? The loving husband Harrison? Other minor characters, too, come in as suspects, and in a crowd of people trying to board a bus, she almost gets run over by it when somebody pushes her out into the street.Brilliantly made but hard to take at times because of Day's predicament which would drive anybody crazy, this has great set decoration featuring Harrison and Day's beautiful apartment, right near a construction site. At one point, Day is rescued from a falling metal beam, and later a stranger enters her home, stalking her as she runs to the balcony to yell for help. Like "The Man Who Knew Too Much", the audience really feels frightened for Doris. Watching her distraught over her son's kidnapping and a pending assassination attempt in the Hitchcock classic is almost nothing in seeing her here fighting for sanity and survival, and indeed, it is one of Day's greatest performances.Coming off the success of playing the obnoxious Henry Higgins on Broadway in "My Fair Lady", Rex Harrison is the epitome of suave sophistication here, but like the original "Unfaithfully Yours", there's something behind that smile you're never quite sure of. Loy is elegant and well mannered, but hints of an agenda too are given. If anybody is the obvious choice, it's McDowall's slimy son who leaves his ailing mother broke because of his failure to hold down a job. The dramatic music is straight out of a Hitchcock movie, and in many ways, it's very similar to "Rear Window", as well as many women in peril films like "Sorry Wrong Number" and "Witness to Murder" with Barbara Stanwyck and Joan Crawford in "Sudden Fear" and "Female on the Beach". In spite of the familiarity of the plot, this is superbly done, and you will be drawn in from the very beginning.

bsmith5552 "Midnight Lace" is a thirties style mystery with an "A" list cast but with no murder.Kit Preston (Doris Day) is an heiress (I think) who is married to Anthony Preston (Rex Harrison) who runs the family business. While walking home through the London fog one night, Kit hears a mysterious voice that threatens her life. Anthony and her friend Peggy (Natasha Perry) convince her that it was probably a prank.However, Kit starts to receive threatening phone calls. She and Anthony go to Scotland Yard to report the incidents. There, Inspector Byrnes (everybody's favorite Scotland Yard detective - John Williams) reassures the couple and doubts Kit's story. But the calls continue.The film lines up the suspects so that each may have a motive for the calls. First there is businessman Victor Elliott (Rhys Williams) who tells the Preston Board of Directors that someone will pay if his company is allowed to go under. Next is clean cut builder Brian Younger (John Gavin) whom we see ogling Kit outside her apartment. Then there is money hungry Malcom Stanley (Roddy McDowell) who tries to extort money from Kit on behalf of his ailing mother (Doris Lloyd), Kit's housekeeper. Charles Manning (Herbert Marshall) the treasurer of the Preston firm apparently is in some financial difficulty and acts suspiciously. Kit's eccentric Aunt Bea (Myrna Loy) arrives and is also under suspicion.One night Anthony receives a call from his assistant Daniel (Richard Ney) who has found some shortages on the company's books. A mysterious stranger, Ash (Anthony Dawson) appears at Kit's apartment and she panics believing him to be the mystery caller. Anthony feigns going to the office in an effort to lure and trap Ash into returning. When he does a scuffle ensues and.................................Doris Day gives an excellent performance in a straight dramatic role as the frightened Kit. She conveys her fear through tears and screams while trying to evade her tormentor. Rex Harrison is good as the supportive husband who has secrets of his own. Not sure what John Gavin is doing here but to rescue Kit. Thirties favorites Loy and Marshall are largely wasted in supporting roles. The always interesting McDowall makes an excellent little rat as well.Alfred Hitchcock would have had at least one murder to deal with.

Gideon24 After her smash success in Pillow Talk, Doris Day was actually Hollywood's # 1 Box Office attraction and she actually cemented that position with a rather shrill melodrama called Midnight Lace.Day plays Kit Preston, the American trophy wife of wealthy British industrialist Anthony Preston (Rex Harrison), who starts receiving phone calls threatening her life and though she can't get anyone to believe her initially, she is driven to the edge of her sanity when all the clues start to point to her own husband as the guilty party.This film was one of 1960's biggest box office hits and for the life of me, I have never understood why. Day's performance here is strictly a matter of taste...this is the kind of role that Lana Turner could play in her sleep, but I found Day to just be out of her element here and Rex Harrison seems to be phoning it in as the husband. The presence of the eternally wooden John Gavin as Day's hero doesn't help matters either, but Myrna Loy is fun as Kit's Aunt Bea. For hard- core Doris fans only.