I know that there are quite a few people who reviewed here who really enjoyed this movie, and Doris Day's performance. Unfortunately, I am not one of them. I was a child when I saw this movie when it came out (I was about 6), and I vividly remember the outcome, so obviously it made an impression on me. But Doris Day's character has to be the most irritating damsel in distress of all time. Anytime anything happens (shadow, stray noise, phone rings), she launches into outlandish hysterics that made me long for someone to slap her and order her to get it together. The worst was a scene where the phone rings when her husband is standing next to her. She snatches up the phone, identifies herself and thrusts the receiver into her husband's hands so he can hear her stalker. Then she stands there, hands clasped together as if pleading or praying, eyes dripping tears, shaking in terror and distress. I wanted to kill her, and I was a viewer!She also must spend an inordinate amount of time changing her clothes, with a different outfit in every scene. The clothes are the height of fashion circa 1960, and they have not aged well, particularly a hat resembling an overturned bucket with a red flower on the front.But a lot of people love this movie, so obviously my opinion is not universal. Plus, to be fair, even for those of us who denigrate this film, it is fun to watch in a "OMG, now what?" kind of way.

MIDNIGHT LACE is a straightforward mystery thriller that offers starring roles for Doris Day and Rex Harrison. This American film was shot in London with lots of British character actors in support, and it feels very much Hitchcockian in style. Day headlines as the ordinary heroine who begins to believe she's going out of her mind when she's assailed by mysterious phone calls and sinister voices.The main problem I had with the story is how predictable it all is. You can guess the outcome from the very first scene so that gives it a rather dated feel. In addition, Day's performance veers towards the histrionic and she overacts on occasion, which I always find irritating. Some of the suspense scenes are quite good and Harrison is fine in a cast-against-type role, but the best bits are those featuring welcome faces including the likes of Herbert Marshall, John Williams, Roddy McDowall, and Anthony Dawson.

After her smash success in Pillow Talk, Doris Day was actually Hollywood's # 1 Box Office attraction and she actually cemented that position with a rather shrill melodrama called Midnight Lace.Day plays Kit Preston, the American trophy wife of wealthy British industrialist Anthony Preston (Rex Harrison), who starts receiving phone calls threatening her life and though she can't get anyone to believe her initially, she is driven to the edge of her sanity when all the clues start to point to her own husband as the guilty party.This film was one of 1960's biggest box office hits and for the life of me, I have never understood why. Day's performance here is strictly a matter of taste...this is the kind of role that Lana Turner could play in her sleep, but I found Day to just be out of her element here and Rex Harrison seems to be phoning it in as the husband. The presence of the eternally wooden John Gavin as Day's hero doesn't help matters either, but Myrna Loy is fun as Kit's Aunt Bea. For hard- core Doris fans only.

Ultra luxurious equally overwrought melodrama with Doris in one high fashion outfit after another being terrorized by phone. Barely believable but highly entertaining film has good co-stars in Rex Harrison and Myrna Loy, who while for the most part is also dressed very well, is forced to wear one of the ugliest hats every seen in film! It looks like an upside down flower basket was dumped on her head. Otherwise the settings are incredibly plush and poor Doris, who has rarely looked better on screen, spends the entire movie in a state of just below the surface hysteria. Also provides a chance to see some nice scenery of London in the early 60's. Silly but a whole lot of fun.