The Other Side of Midnight

Buy This Item The Other Side of Midnight by 20th Century Fox  Available from Amazon  $14.99  on 11-27-2008     Based on the novel by Sidney Sheldon, this riveting story of love and revenge boasts dazzling portrayals by Marie-France Pisier, John Beck and Susan Sarandan in one of her career-making roles. <P>Although American WWII pilot Larry Douglas (Beck) promises to marry French femme fatale Noelle Page (Pisier), he instead returns Stateside and marries well-to-do Catherine Alexander (Sarandon). And once Noelle takes a Greek multi-millionaire (Raf Vallone) as a lover, she plots to shame Larry by arranging for him to be the tycoonÂ's private pilot. But in one of many delicious twists of fate in this gripping tale of love, war and betrayal, Noelle and Larry again become passionate, and when Catherine refuses to divorce Larry, the cheating couple seek a murderous revenge. Reader Reviews What a treat to reflect on Susan Sarandon's early film career. Made 30 years ago, this film is one of the early successes that launched her career. We find young American pilot in Paris during the WWII. He has enrolled in Canadian airforce to fight against the enemy at the time when US is not involved in a war. During his stay in Paris, our officer meets Noelle, Parisian beauty who madly falls in love with him not realizing that she is only one of his many flings along the way. Soon, her lover leaves her alone in Paris with false promise of return. As she learns she is pregnant and realizes that her love is not coming back, she undergoes self-inflicted abortion and sets to establishing herself as a model and actress while tracing every move her former lover makes. In the meantime, her lover is back in US where he meets young newspaper reporter Catherine (Sarandon) and marries her. As war is over, he has difficulty finding employment in part due to his inability to adjust to a civilian life. By this time, Noelle is famous actress in relationship with wealthy Greek businessman. She plots to get her lover back and in order to have him close to her life, she gets him hired as a private pilot for her own plane. At that point on, obsession takes over. Their self destructive desire to be together, opens the door to the worst in them. People around them do not matter any more. What matters is that they remain together at any price. But that desire is the beginning of their own destruction. Marie-France Pisier in her role of Noelle is famme fatale - beauty beyond words. After being used by many men, including her own father, she is unstoppable in geting what she really wants.

The Other Side of Midnight Available from Amazon Price: $14.99 Updated on 11-27-2008.

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