Five Miles to Midnight
1962 · Movie · 104 min. · France
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.
Direction Anatole Litvak
Cast Sophia Loren · Anthony Perkins · Gig Young · Jean-Pierre Aumont · Yolande Finch · Tommy Norden · Mathilde Casadesus · Billy Kearns · Barbara Nicot · Pascale Roberts
Soundtrack Mikis Theodorakis
Screenplay Peter Viertel · Hugh Wheeler
Cinematography Henri Alekan
Original title Le couteau dans la plaie
5.8
159 votes (FilmAffinity)
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