Midnight Lace (1960)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.9/10   

Director:

David Miller

Escritores:

Janet Green (play)
Ivan Goff (screenplay) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

23 diciembre 1960 (Alemania Occidental)

Género:

Suspenso | Misterio

Plot:

Kit and Anthony Preston never had a real honeymoon, and the midnight lace pajamas are for when they can finally get out of London...

Plot Keywords:

Fog | Telephone | Elevator | Woman In Jeopardy | Police Detective

Premios:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 3 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Interesting little movie

Reparto

Doris Day	...	Kit Preston
Rex Harrison	...	Anthony 'Tony' Preston
John Gavin	...	Brian Younger
Myrna Loy	...	Beatrice ('Aunt Bea') Corman
Roddy McDowall	...	Malcolm
Herbert Marshall	...	Charles Manning
Natasha Parry	...	Peggy Thompson
Hermione Baddeley	...	Dora Hammer
John Williams	...	Insp. Byrnes
Richard Ney	...	Daniel Graham
Anthony Dawson	...	Roy Ash
Rhys Williams	...	Victor Elliot
Richard Lupino	...	Simon Foster
Hayden Rorke	...	Dr. Garver
Doris Lloyd	...	Nora, The Housekeeper

También conocida como:

Encaje de medianoche (Chile) [es]
Un grito en la niebla (Spain) [es]

Duración:

110 min | 108 min (TCM print)

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Clasificación:

UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (re-rating) (2000) | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | West Germany:16

Locaciones de Filmación:

London, England, UK

Compañía:

Arwin Productions

Trivialidades:

In her autobiography, Doris Day wrote that to prepare herself for one of the terror scenes, she recalled a time when her first husband, trombonist Al Jorden, dragged her out of bed when she was ill and pregnant and hurled her against a wall. Day related that in the scene she wasn't acting hysterical, she WAS hysterical, and at the end of the take she collapsed in a real faint. She was carried to her dressing room, and producer Ross Hunter shut down production for a few days while she recovered.

Errores:

Continuidad: When Brian Younger is walking by Kit Preston's building, he hears the door to the construction site squeaking loudly as it opens and shuts. A second later he goes through it, and the door makes no sound at all.

Citas:

Tony Preston: Nora won the Irish Sweep, madam, and left. I'm the new maid.

Conexiones de Película:

References Vertigo (1958)

Banda de Sonido:

What Does a Woman Do?

Interesting little movie

I caught this on Channel Five last week, and I expected another plodding Doris Day film. However, I was pleasantly surprised! This little gem isn't actually that bad. I give you that Doris Day does overplay her role horrendously in some parts, and that you can guess the twist ending when you're only half - way through, but all in all, this quite a good movie thriller!

It's about a woman who starts getting mysterious death threats from some unknown person, and as the film goes on, we see her mental health deteriorate into the twist in the climax.

The scariest scene is in the London fog in the very first scene, and the rest of it builds up suspense. A little over acted, and perfectly see - through, but a good thriller all the same! Rent it for a night in! I recommend it!