Midnight [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Midnight, written by that matchless Hollywood pair Billy Wilder and Charles Backett, is that rare Hollywood bird: a comedy where practically everything works. Poverty-stricken Claudette Colbert is stranded in Paris with only an evening gown to her name. She is hired by aristocrat John Barrymore to pose as a Hungarian countess, to divert the gigolo (Francis Lederer) who is wooing Barrymore's wife (Mary Astor). Don Ameche is a sarcastic cabdriver who befriends Colbert and watches the whole sp...