72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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MIDNIGHT / Midnight

Mitchel Leisen
USA
Synopsis

Penniless in Paris, chorus girl Eve Peabody rejects the persistent advances of taxi-driver Tibor Czerny, preferring to personify a Hungarian countess for jealous husband George Flammarion, who is desesperately trying to lure Jacques Picots away from his wife, Helene; but Czerny puts the cat among the pigeons when he turns up in the shape of Eve's lost long husband. 

Director
Mitchel Leisen
Screenplay
Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder
Plot
Edwin Justus Mayer, Franz Schulz
Photography
Charles Lang Jr.
Edition
Doane Harrison
Music
Frederick Hollander
Cast
Claudette Colbert (Eve Peabody), Don Ameche (Tibor Czerny), John Barrymore (Georges Flammarion), Francis Lederer (Jacques Picot)
Running Time
92 m.
Country
USA
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