Word: midnights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Midnight (Paramount). For the past year and a half, Paramount has been struggling with all the $120,000,000 resources at its command to produce another comedy as good as True Confession. Midnight does it. The story-about a chorus girl who lands in Paris on a rainy night with no assets but a low-cut evening dress -is not as fresh as a mountain daisy. But with Claudette Colbert as the chorus girl, Don Ameche as the taxi-driver who meets her at the station, Francis Lederer as the gigolo who falls in love with her and John Barrymore...
...impossible little prig she is. But it remains for an agin-the-rich magazine writer from Destiny (sister publication of the picture-magazine Spy and of "brief, bluff, belligerent" Dime) to queer the marriage, convert the girl and be converted in turn. In the course of a little drunken midnight swimming in the nude, he teaches her that lots of nice people are human, she teaches him that lots of rich people are nice...
Such, for this typical middle-class English family, was the morning after the air raid. The town was Southampton, the story fictitious. But Ordeal makes the air raid and the days that follow as natural as death. The raid had come about midnight-without warning, without sound of planes. The Corbett house was not hit. Only the windows were missing, letting a cold March rain sough in over the rugs and furniture. "What's it all about, anyway?" asked Corbett. "I dunno," said Neighbor Littlejohn...
That night, because it was moonlit, they expected worse hell. But no bombers came at all. The next night it rained again. Again at midnight the bombs fell. Neighbor Littlejohn was wounded, his wife killed. Death missed the Corbetts by inches. Enemy planes had bombed blind, from above the clouds, taking sextant bearings from the stars...
...matter how varied her roles, Clandette Colbert gilds them with her own delightful personality and carries a Midas-touch of success. Despite its title, "Midnight" takes her from moonlight romance to a light-hearted Paris where she can romp with royalty but feel more at home with taxi-drivers. It is a sprightly picture, never convulsing the audience with laughter, but leaving it happy and satisfied. It has faults, to be sure, a trite plot and some forced situations, but Miss Colbert sweeps it along to victory. Right by her side is John Barrymore perfect as ever and clearly...