Midnight Dolls (1979) User Reviews (2)

Watch it at your own risk...

[pv61 · 23 September 2011]

Two things pushed me to watch this movie almost against my will: Is from the Calderón Stell brothers and I wanted to see if I could find all the ''vedettes'' on screen after reading their names on the credits.

From the 11 movies that Montenegro and Rivero made together, there's one where she pretends to be a man, so it was his turn now to do the opposite. To make Rivero sign the contract someone surely told him that this would be a comedy in the style of UNA EVA Y DOS ADANES (Some like it hot), but check this out and tell me if this is a good idea:

1- With those huge muscles, Rivero has bone marrow cancer and has seen several specialists, who had told him the same, no cure.

2- His mother is catholic, so he can not commit suicide because that would kill her too, losing her son and thinking he was going to hell it was just too much.

3- He decides to hire someone to kill him by surprise, and that way he won't even feel it.

4- Just seconds after signing the contract with the assassins, arriving at home, the phone is ringing and is one of the doctors telling him they were ALL WRONG, ALL OF THEM!!! He is not going to die after all...Is that even believable?

5- He can not undo the killing thing, so gets his friend (Inclán) and move to another apartment DRESSED AS WOMEN until the hired assassins forget the whole deal when they never find him.

6- A slutty neighbor sees them moving in and quickly calls Montenegro so she can hire Rivero as her personal assistant. Montenegro likes them big and manly.

7- MUÑECAS DE MEDIANOCHE, is the place where Montenegro performs a couple numbers. Here is where the flesh showing, the dancing and the drinking begins.

8- LA CORCHOLATA shows up, along with Isela Vega, Caballo Rojas, Andrés García playing himself, Manuel loco Valdés (in love with Inclán in drag), la creme de la creme.

9- Rivero falls in love with, wanna guess? Montenegro! (her name here is GINA MONTESCO, just like Gina Montes, the Brazilian vedette, who is also there) and everything starts to get complicated when the assassin shows up as one of Montenegro's ''friend''.

10- Another Asian-looking 'vedette'' is there and is not Lyn Mai, maybe she had BETTER things to do... really? In the end I didn't find all the vedettes I was looking for but found out Rivero and Inclán's costume designer was MITZI! Yes, Thalías Mitzi... (I think he was jealous and that's why he made those horrible dresses) unbelievable!

A Mexican version of SOME LIKE IT HOT.

[Vivaelhotelplaza2005 · 10/10 · 2 August 2006]

1979 was a year that would be forever considered BIG in Movie history, and the film of Muñecas De medianoche was one of the many Films that were released in that year, in which this film was to be one of the four that would make Sasha Montenegro a household name, of which the other two were Bellas De Noche and Las Ficheras, while Noche De Cabaret and Las Cariñosas were also huge films for her as well as Pedigrina. This film was made with a great cast and a fantastic setting, in which the film is considered a classic of all time, although in the U.S it would be considered as an NC17 film for its time, due to it showing Actresses in full Nude settings.

The film begins with a Cabaret setting that is also a Dance-floor setting with a Disco light floor that reminds many of Saturday Night Fever, when the music is Tropical and that of Puerto Rico's Rafael Fernandez, with the music in the whole film being that of this by then passed on composer, and it being performed by a great Orchestra named La Sonora Santanera. The story is really based on a man of wealth who is told by doctors that he has Cancer and is dying, when his best friend is a salesman who helps him try to con the Insurance companies about a fake suicide. When it is discovered that our hero is not dying he finds out that the man who is an American that they talked to is a Mafiosi, with strange accidents occurring to them once they try to sneak their way out of this mess. In the end the two have to disguise themselves as women and rent an apartment in a section of el Distrito Federal so they can hide out, and a Brasilera blonde befriends them with her giving our hero a job as an assistant to a Dancer at a Cabaret that is named "Las Muñecas". The hero is played by Jorge Rivero and his friend is played by Rafael Inclan, in which the dancer is Sasha Montenegro and is named Gina, and she first comes out in the film doing an amazing dance in a pool of water, with Vegas type Girls dancing around her as well as almost all naked Guys. The amazing thing about the story is that of how Inclan suddenly turns transvestite and comfortable as a Gay man, with " El Loco" Valdez whom is the father of Cristian Castro playing the role of the mad lover falling for the woman who is really Inclan. Sasha's character tells our hero that she started failing as a Model, and the Commercial was that of a Brandy where as she never drank any alcohol before she was totally drunk after three tries in the making of this Commercial where she was dressed up as Maria Antoinette; in which she is on the floor and throwing the glass that she drinks on the floor and shattering it, when then she raspberries. It turns out that the American Mafiosi is fooling Sasha's character in being an Italian and wanting to marry her, but in reality she wants to find a Rudolf Valentino and be with him, so from then onwards out hero tries to find a way in being Valentino for her. In the end he sneaks into her room and makes love to Sasha's character, but then he reveals to her that he is her assistant, and the poor girl becomes furious and gets out of bed stark naked, but then he tells her the story and the next day confronts the American who was not a Mafiosi at all but a true Con Man and that those strange accidents were just coincidences.

There are side stories that are as grand as this one, with Carmen Salinas playing the role of a former Girl of the Cabaret who is an alcoholic and is the best friend of the owner of the Cabaret who took over from her late husband; in which the role that Carmen Salinas does in this film always being the same as in so many others, but in different settings of Cabarets. One other story is that of the owner of the Cabaret and Andres Garcia who plays himself, with him doing everything to win her heart and finally winning her but after almost falling to his death from a window via him doing Glass Cleaning; of which although she tells Garcia that he was bad in bed, she tells him later on that he was, in which that is how the film ends. As for Gina and our hero they end up together in his real house, and Rafael Inclan's character continues on the farce of him being Gay and a woman when he runs away from "El Flaco " Valdez who wants to finally become intament to the woman who he supposedly thinks is for real.