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Mademoiselle Midnight

1924 · 67 min Drama
5.4 / 10 · TMDB

Renée (Mae Murray) is the heiress of a Mexican ranch, granddaughter of a woman known for her recklessness and frivolity at night. This first "Mademoiselle Midnight" is banished in the opening scene by Napoleon III at Empress Eugenie's insistence to Mexico. Renee is kept locked at the hacienda at night by her father to prevent her following in her grandmother's wayward footsteps. She falls in love with a visiting American (Monte Blue) but is also pursued by the craven outlaw Manuel Corrales. Miss Murray gets to do some of her trademark dancing, but this one isn't a comedy, despite comic relief provided by Johnny Arthur.

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Year 1924
Country United States of America
Genre Drama
Director Robert Z. Leonard
Runtime 67 min.
Rating TMDB: 5.4/10 (5 votes)

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The film constructs a tense drama from the contrast between daytime confinement and nocturnal yearning, relying on a fateful family curse. Using the Mexican setting as a metaphor for an internal cage, it explores themes of inherited passion and the struggle for self-determination.

What lingers after the final reel is a sense of smoldering desire clashing with rigid convention, where even the comic relief cannot fully lift the veil of impending tragedy. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Robert Z. Leonard

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In subdued lighting, surrendering to the visual poetry of silent cinema and its drama of restrained passions.

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