Wednesday, April 20, 2011

"Star of Midnight"

I saw Stephen Roberts' Star of Midnight ('35) on TCM one night about a year-and-a-half ago and I've been pining for it to come on again ever since. 
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Just recently I've come to be extremely reverent towards those quick, convoluted 80-minute mystery-comedies that use to populate Hollywood in the 30's and 40's (you know, the ones where they round up all of the suspects in the last scene and he/she reaches for a gun in a last ditch attempt to escape their guilt?) and Star of Midnight is easily, albeit shamelessly, as good as, if not better than any of the Thin Man sequels. 
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These are the roles that immortalized William Powell - the blithe drunkard and amateur sleuth who loves his women but would never show it - and for any fans of his Nick Charles character, this is simply more of the same, but never enough. 

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