Five Miles to Midnight ( Le Couteau dans la plaie ) ( Il Coltello nella piaga (5 Miles to Mid night) )

Five Miles to Midnight (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Le Couteau dans la plaie
Alternate Title: Il Coltello nella piaga (5 Miles to Mid night)
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
103 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Biographies
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1962 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Anatole Litvak

Written By:
André Versini
Peter Viertel

Actors:
Sophia Loren ..... Lisa Macklin
Anthony Perkins ..... Robert Macklin
Gig Young ..... David Barnes
Jean-Pierre Aumont ..... Alan Stewart
Yolande Turner ..... Barbara Ford (as Yolande Finch)
Tommy Norden ..... Johnny
Mathilde Casadesus ..... Mme. Duval, Concierge
Billy Kearns ..... Capt. Wade
Barbara Nicot ..... Regine
Louis Falavigna ..... Pharmacist
Elina Labourdette ..... Mme. Lafont
Régine ..... Mrs. Wade
Pascale Roberts ..... Streetwalker
Sophie Réal ..... Housemaid
Jean Ozenne ..... Mons. Babasse

Synopsis:

Lisa Macklin, an Italian woman, has a fight with her American husband Robert in a Paris night club. He leaves the next day for a business trip and Lisa says she does not want to see him again. She is with newspaperman Alan Stewart that evening when she learns Robert's plane has crashed with no survivors. Waking from sedation after the funeral, Lisa finds Robert in their flat, injured but alive. He was thrown clear of the crash by a lucky twist of fate. He now plans to collect the $120,000 insurance he took out at the airport. Once Lisa collects the money and turns it over to him, she will finally be rid of him. She attempts to get advice from Stewart, but he has been replaced by David Barnes. Lisa's life becomes a tortuous ordeal, at work, at home, faced with a fugitive husband and a growing love for David, who suspects everything. Finally her nightmare concludes when she finally gets the check and meets Robert. As they drive to the Belgian border, he reveals he never intended giving her up to Barnes or anyone else. If she dares go, he will tell the police all and she will be arrested--as accessory to fraud. Lisa realizes she must take the desperate step to freedom. Once taken, there is no turning back.

In director Anatole Litvak's FIVE MILES TO MIDNIGHT, a sexy European woman, Lisa (Sophia Loren), marries a domineering, jealous American, Robert (Anthony Perkins), and becomes trapped in a violent marriage. Much to her relief, Robert leaves on business, only to plunge to his death in a plane crash. Even more shocking for Lisa, however, is learning her husband is, in fact, still alive and planning to collect insurance money by playing dead. The film leads the viewer down a road of deception and suspense, a journey further complicated by Lisa's friends, two journalists (Gig Young, Jean-Pierre Aumont), whom she confides in about her dastardly situation. While Loren plays her typically sensual self, Perkins is eerie and unnerving, and the film's surprise ending is supremely thrilling.

A former pilot and his wife try to pull an insurance swindle but he is killed and his wife goes mad.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 29 March, 2009.

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