Midnight Blu-Ray

Screwball comedies don't get any more elegant and cheerfully irreverent than this roulette wheel of romantic deceit, sparkling with cunning humor and continental elegance. Claudette Colbert, dressed in couture, is divine as a poor American chorus girl who enters Parisian high society by pretending to be a wealthy Hungarian baroness— but both an scheming nobleman (John Barrymore) and a lovesick taxi driver (Don Ameche) soon catch on to her game. Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett's sophisticated screenplay – a typically subversive blend of fairy-tale escapism and biting social observation – and the masterful direction of Mitchell Leisen result in an upside-down Cinderella story with a cynical edge.

 

 

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION

 

 

 

 

New 4K digital restoration with uncompressed monaural audio track.

New audio commentary with author and film critic Michael Koresky.

New featurette with audio excerpts from 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.