Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

gsygsy I stumbled across this movie in a DVD store and decided to give it a try because I like Claudette Colbert so much. By the time the film ended, I couldn't believe I'd not heard of it before, because it is BRILLIANT!One of those rare comedies that gets funnier as it goes along, saving up its best laughs for the home straight. Script by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett -- unbeatable.Top-drawer on every level. Highly recommend.

JohnHowardReid The term, "a comedy of manners", is much abused by film and literary critics who often pin this label on bucolic slapstick like The Egg and I (1947) or mismatched romantic formulas like Misleading Lady (1932). The true comedy of manners, like The Philadelphia Story for instance, is set almost exclusively in high society where the foibles of the idle rich who have nothing better to do than play marital games, come under the microscope.As it happens, I'm not a great fan of the comedy of manners. The idle pursuits of the idle rich do not greatly interest me. But there are exceptions – like this movie and the aforesaid Philadelphia Story – where the formula is broadened to include major characters like James Stewart's reporter in P.S. or Don Ameche's cab-driver in Midnight.The latter film also has the advantage of Claudette Colbert's lead character who, like Miss Colbert's lead character in the 1942 Palm Beach Story, doesn't really belong – although she makes a good try (and this fish out of water element serves as the basis for most of the satire and comedy).Most fortunately too, Midnight has a fine supporting cast led by John Barrymore (at his scene-stealing best) and Mary Astor. And right up almost to the end of the movie when Leisen allows Monty Woolley to hog the camera and bring this fast-paced movie to a screeching halt, it's directed at an admirably rapid clip too! You really need to have your ears and eyes fully attuned and your mind clear as a bell to follow the many delightful twists and turns of the plot.

edwagreen Whoever wrote this deserves a lot of credit. Of course, with such a great cast, they're able to pull this one off. The problem with this wise-cracking film is the end. It is silly and in a way a cop out as well.What a premise! A chorus girl in Paris becomes involved in a plot by a jealous wealthy man to break up the liaison between his wife and her lover. Our rich guy goes so far as to set up the chorus lady as a wife of a baron. All Hades breaks lose when the cab driver shows up as the baron.Claudette Colbert just shines as our lady baroness, and Don Ameche is perfect as the cab driver-turned-baron. In fact, when he is in the car, note the gleam in his eyes. Mary Astor, as the wealthy woman, carrying on with Francis Lederer, displays her usual suspicious, nasty character. John Barrymore, as the jealous husband, is humorous. Remember when he killed in a jealous rage in the Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald film of 1937? Barrymore certainly proved that he was adept at comedy as well.

ksf-2 This 1939 version of "Midnight" does not seem to be related to any of the other "Midnights" made in 1917, 1934, 1982, 1989, 2006. Claudette Colbert is the dolled up Eve Peabody, broke and looking for work in the rain. Along comes ever-so-friendly cab driver Tibor Czerny (Don Ameche), who goes out of this way to drive her around and help her find work. Also in here are John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Hedda Hopper, and Monty Woolley, all biggies in Hollywood. Note the cast list, which includes William Hopper, Hedda's son, as a party guest. Also Joyce Mathews, who was married to Milton Berle (twice !) In usual Billy Wilder style, there are elements of a chase, some moments of serious plot, and a whole lot of silly pratfalls that mostly end in good luck. When Eve sneaks into an evening party, pretending to be someone else, she meets up with Georges Flammarion (Barrymore) , who has a scheme going of his own, and he needs Eve's assistance. Rumor has it Barbara Stanwyck was originally going to star in this, and there are definitely similarities to Lady Eve, which would be released two years after Midnight by Preston Sturgess. Midnight also has a similar plot to The Bride Wore Red from 1937, where Joan Crawford sneaks into a weekend getaway with the uppercrust, but one of her own "friends" wants to save her before its too late. In our story, we keep flashing over to the cabbie Czerny (Ameche) who is still trying to track down Eve.... Who will she end up with, and will she be exposed as the fraud she is ? Fun, fast script, and it keeps the viewer enthralled. Colbert plays Eve just innocent enough to make us want her to succeed, even though she is doing some underhanded things. Fun to watch!