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Five Miles To Midnight

1963, Movie, NR, 110 mins

Five Miles To Midnight: Review

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Tawdry little melodrama has sexy Sophia marrying neurotic Perkins, a jealous, paranoid American youth. When he catches her doing a hip-grinding, bust-bouncing Twist in front of salivating nightclubbers in a Paris bistro, Perkins explodes and slaps her. Before he departs on a business trip, Loren tells Perkins she never wants to see him again. She is later horrified when she learns that his plane has crashed and all on board are dead. Returning home, her horror changes to shock when she finds Perkins waiting for her--dirty, bruised, and desperate with a scheme to defraud the airline. He intends to collect $120,000 in coverage he took out before takeoff and tells Loren he plans to play dead. She will collect the money for him, he tells her, and then he will be out of her life. Loren seeks advice from Aumont and Young, two journalists she has been seeing, but they are of little help. Her life is complicated by insurance investigators plaguing her and by Perkins' volatile behavior as he remains in hiding. Finally, she collects and the pair drive to the Belgium border. Here Perkins tells Loren that he never had any intention of giving up his exhibitionist wife, that she will stay with him for life. Loren panics and runs him over in her car, then returns to Young who calls police to set this mess right. This was a sorry disappointment for the gifted director Litvak and none of the plot works, the leads being too lightweight to carry the heavy tale. Loren shows her animal attractiveness and more or less babies Perkins who acts like a motherless child. Beyond that, the acting is miserable. The two were paired for this dismal drama after their appearance in DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS (1958), and that film didn't work either. Five minutes were deleted from the US release of this film, which was shot in Paris. leave a comment
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