Paris at Midnight is a 1926 American silent drama film starring Jetta Goudal and Lionel Barrymore and was directed by E. Mason Hopper.

[1] It was based on the novel Le Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac.

[2] As described in a film magazine review,[3] Eugene de Rastagnic, an impoverished artist loves Victorine Tallefer, an abandoned girl who stays at the same boarding house in Paris, but because of a lack of money turns away from her.

Vautrin, a man of mystery at the boarding house, makes the abandoned girl’s father, who hates her because her mother deserted him, take her back.

Several interesting incidents occur because of the actions of Vautrin, who seems to find ways to resolve the problems of the boarding house residents.