Monday 9 May 2016

Midnight Lace (1965 David Miller)

Unmistakeable Universal (Ross Hunter) London richly evoked by Russell Metty and featuring his own particular shade of blue. Poor old Doris Day - no one believes she's being persecuted by a man with a sing-song voice, not husband Rex Harrison, aunt Myrna Loy nor neighbour Natasha Perry. As for Roddy McDowell. he's just too creepy. And what are John Gavin and Herbert Marshall up to? Quite decently rendered version of Janet Green's play by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts, to Frank Skinner's orchestra.

Film benefits from John Williams as a suspicious copper.

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