Taglines: A motion picture that touches the trigger of violence in all of us!.
Five Miles to Midnight movie storyline. Lisa Macklin (Sophia Loren), an Italian woman, has a fight with her American husband Robert (Anthony Perkins) 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 (Jean-Pierre Aumont) 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 She attempts to get advice from Stewart, but he has been replaced by David Barnes.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.
Five Miles to Midnight (French: Le Couteau dans la Plaie, literally The Knife in the Wound) is a 1962 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Anatole Litvak. It starred Sophia Loren and Anthony Perkins. It was produced through Filmsonor S.A., Dear Film Produzione and Mercury, and distributed by United Artists.
The film was directed by Anatole Litvak and produced by Litvak and Louis Wipf from a screenplay by Peter Viertel and Hugh Wheeler with dialogue by Maurice Druon, based on an idea by André Versini. The musical score was written by Mikis Theodorakis for the film, which also includes music by Jacques Loussier and Giuseppe Mengozzi. The cinematography was by Henri Alekan. The film stars Sophia Loren and Anthony Perkins, with Gig Young, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Yolande Turner, Tommy Norden, Mathilde Casadesus, Billy Kearns, Barbara Nicot, Elina Labourdette and Sophie Réal.
Five Miles to Midnight (1962)
Directed by: Anatole Litvak
Starring: Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Gig Young, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Yolande Turner, Tommy Norden, Mathilde Casadesus, Billy Kearns, Barbara Nicot, Elina Labourdette, Sophie Réal
Screenplay by: Peter Viertel, Hugh Wheeler, Maurice Druon
Cinematography by: Henri Alekan
Film Editing by: Bert Bates
Costume Design by: Guy Laroche
Art Direction by: Alexandre Trauner
Music by: Mikis Theodorakis, Jacques Loussier, Giuseppe Mengozzi
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: United Artists
Release Date: December 12, 1962 (France)
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