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Midnight Blu-Ray- PRE- ORDER - 14-Jul-25
Midnight Blu-Ray- PRE- ORDER - 14-Jul-25
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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.
Film info:
· United States
· 1939
· 94 minutes
· Black & White
· 1.37:1
· English
· Spine #1266
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
