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I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

There are two things to tell a potential viewer about this film. First, it's pre-code, so there are some racy scenes here...at least racy for the time. Second, this is an old-fashioned morality tale, and of course that means that the young woman (Loretta Young) will pay in the end! The story begins in a courtroom with Mary on trial for murder, seemingly bored by the whole procedure. She waits for the verdict in a room with law books, each labeled with a year -- a clever way to work through numerous flashbacks explaining how she got to where she is. Orphaned, she is falsely accused of shoplifting and sent to a reform school. She and her friend (Una Merkel) unwittingly get in with a couple of armed robbers. She tries to go straight but can't find work (after all, it is the Great Depression), so she return to the crook and becomes his mistress and partner in crime.Then, things seem to be turning her way. She meets and falls in love with a society lawyer (Franchot Tone), who rehabilitates her by putting her through stenographers school and then giving her a job. But the gang catches up with her eventually, and to save Tone's life she kills the mob boss that is in love with her, for which she goes to trail. Just as she is about to be convicted, Tone arrives to reopen her case with new evidence -- his own. And at the end of the film we are left with the hope that the second trial will go in her favor...which never would have happened post-code.Perhaps the most interesting casting in this film is that of Andy Devine, who wears a tuxedo throughout the entire film! But still has that Hee Haw voice.This is a good film worth watching. Gangsterish, but the central theme is that love conquers all. And oh those beautiful eyes of Loretta Young!

I am also surprised, reading the high praise reaped on this film from the other reviewers. Sure, I quite liked the film, but "jaw droppingly awesome" no no no!!! I'd reserve comments like that for Barbara Stanwyck or Bette Davis - not Loretta Young, for crying out loud!!! Critics were not impressed with the movie either, but it was hugely popular as the movie public flocked to see Loretta's fall, suffering and redemption. There is no denying Loretta Young's beauty. From what I have read it was the first time she was given a character with a bit of depth and she really proved herself. Definitely her expressive eyes were made the most of - the first shot of her reading "Cosmopolitan" her eyes showed her feelings - she is confidant she will get off, then as the film reverts to a flashback, her eyes express fright as she is sent to a juvenile detention centre.Mary is on trial for murder and as she waits for the jury and talks to the kindly clerk (Charley Grapewin) - she relives her life. Her mother dies, then she is caught shop-lifting (she is just an innocent bystander, but that doesn't stop the judge sending her up for 3 years). On her release she is ready for excitement and along with her friend Bunny (Una Merkel) falls in with racketeer, Leo Darcy (dishy Ricardo Cortez). Again nothing "naughty" seems to happen to give the film a "pre-code" status - even Mary's dresses are not revealing. The only suggestive scene is when Bunny reveals her pregnancy and Mary says "he'll just have to marry you then" and when Mary is trying on fur coats. There is also some violence towards women as well. Mary seems keen to accept all the good things in life that Leo can provide but when a policeman is shot she has to face reality. She is caught and goes to jail rather than rat on her friends. When she is released she is determined to earn her living in an honest way. She becomes a secretary and, of course, falls for her boss, Tom Mannering Jnr. (Franchot Tone). Leo has already entered the picture - he was impressed with her loyalty and when he finds her down and out on a park bench, finds it easy to persuade her to return to the good life. When Leo finds Mary and Tom chatting, he sees red and is determined to gun Tom down, but Mary stops him with a gun.It is a very enjoyable film but definitely not as wonderful as a few reviewers would have you believe. I agree with Dan - to me it is an old fashioned melodrama and not a pre-coder.Recommended.

Interesting drama about a young woman named Mary Martin (played by Loretta Young), on trial for murder, who awaits her verdict and remembers back to her past leading up to this crime. From childhood rummaging through garbage at the dump, to being placed in a "house of correction" as a teenager when she is unjustly accused of stealing a pocketbook, to unknowingly playing lookout for a bunch of crooks pulling a job, Mary really is a good girl - she's just had a life that went from one bad break to another, it seems. Unable to find a real job, she ends up a gangster's moll and, along with his gang of hoodlums, she's now dressing to the nines in satin gown, skullcap, and fur coat and assisting them with crimes - but when she meets a handsome, rich playboy (Franchot Tone) one night while out on a "job" with her gang, she asks him to help her get away from this life of crime.This film is really interesting, well-edited and fast-paced, with compelling story that completely held my interest, and a really great performance by Loretta Young who really makes this film. Una Merkel adds to the mix as Mary's gal pal Bun, and Andy Devine is fun as Franchot Tone's goofy sidekick. Franchot Tone, by the way, looks extremely handsome in this with top hat, white tie, and tails (oh, my), Loretta Young is very beautiful, as usual, and there is just tons of chemistry between the two of them in their romantic scenes. Watch for those kisses - wow!

Midnight Mary is pre-code bliss par excellence! Loretta Young stars as a down on her luck young woman who finds herself in situations that she never would've found herself in later in her career! From the opening courtroom scenes where Mary finds herself reminiscing about her past, we are taken on a roller coaster ride through the years to find out how she came to be where she is now! Mary isn't a bad girl, she's just had a lot of bad luck and made unfortunate choices in consequence.Loretta has tons of chemistry with her co-stars Ricardo Cortez (yummy) and wise-cracking, adorable Una Merkel, who has a really great philosophical drunk scene in the movie! There are many scenes that wouldn't have made it past the censors later on, such as the one at the kitchen table where Loretta and Franchot Tone discuss a subject that's on a lot of people's minds a lot of the time. And towards the end of the movie, there's a scene with Mary trying to seduce Leo, who responds by licking her fingers as she strokes his face.This is a great little morality play and a comment on the hard times encountered during the Depression Era, when many people were forced into hard choices they might never have made otherwise.All the cast is great, including Franchot Tone as the suave lawyer who befriends and saves Mary and Andy Devine as his loud-mouthed friend who's along for the ride.Midnight Mary really is Pre-Code Bliss!