Like in "The Thin Man" there is an awful lot of drinking going on and some murder intrigue between the cocktails, but no Myrna Loy, and no Asta, instead there is Ginger Rogers who is not dancing, only acting, but doing well in keeping up the comedy, for it is a criminal comedy that desperately tries to keep some criminal intrigue going, which only gets mixed up in a lot of extra intrigues, while like one of the actors you desperately wait for the lost actress to turn up, who never turns up, no matter how much she is constantly discussed, and when someone like her at last turns up and with a shotgun she is just a disguised man. The music is good though, and gives the film a lot of fine atmosphere, as the main theme keeps constantly returning and forms part of the intrigue, because the singer of the song is the lost actress. That's the only way we get to know her.
Review of Star of Midnight
