Midnight Lovers (1926 film)

Midnight Lovers
Lobby card
Directed byJohn Francis Dillon
Written byCarey Wilson (story)
George Marion, Jr. (intertitles)
Based onCollusion (play)
by J. E. Harold Terry
Produced byJohn McCormick
StarringLewis Stone
Anna Q. Nilsson
CinematographyJames Van Trees
Distributed byFirst National Pictures
Release date
  • October 25, 1926 (1926-10-25)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Midnight Lovers is a 1926 American silent romantic war comedy film directed by John Francis Dillon and distributed by First National Pictures. It starred Lewis Stone and Anna Q. Nilsson. It was based on the play Collusion by J. E. Harold Terry.[1]

Prints of the film are preserved at the Library of Congress and the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, Madison.[2][3]

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,[4] because all the girls in her set married war heroes, and because William Ridgewell is a distinguished commander of aviation, Diana marries him. As soon as he has left for the front after a short honeymoon, during which she finds him to be a petrol-smelling, blunt-speeched aviator, she decides to divorce him. She intends marrying a man-about town as soon as the divorce takes effect. She writes her intentions to her husband, just as the armistice is signed. He hurries home and, because he loves her, agrees to arrange a desertion so she can get the divorce. On the fourteenth day, the last day for legan desertion, he becomes intoxicated. Reason leaves him and he returns home and goes to bed. In the morning when the other man appears Ridgewell throws him out. Diana, seeing her husband is really a desirable person, becomes reconsidered.

Cast

References

  1. ^ "The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Midnight Lovers". Retrieved July 17, 2016.
  2. ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Midnight Lovers
  3. ^ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress page 116, c.1978 by The American Film Institute
  4. ^ "New Pictures: Midnight Lovers", Exhibitors Herald, 27 (6), Chicago, Illinois: Exhibitors Herald Company: 67, October 23, 1926, retrieved January 12, 2026 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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