Five Miles to Midnight

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Five Miles to Midnight
The VHS cover.
Directed by	Anatole Litvak
Produced by	Anatole Litvak Louis Wipf
Written by	Peter Viertel Hugh Wheeler Maurice Druon
Starring	Sophia Loren Anthony Perkins
Music by	Mikis Theodorakis Jacques Loussier Giuseppe Mengozzi
Cinematography	Henri Alekan
Editing by	Bert Bates
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date(s)	December 12, 1962
Running time	110 min.
Country	France/Italy/US
Language	English
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Five Miles to Midnight (French: Le Couteau dans la plaie) is a 1962 French-Italian-American drama film made by Filmsonor S.A., Dear Film Produzione and Mercury and distributed by United Artists. It was directed by Anatole Litvak and produced by Anatole 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 music 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 and Tommy Norden.

[edit] Plot

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Lisa, a sexy European woman, is trapped in a violent marriage with Robert, a domineering, jealous American. When Robert, travelling on business, plunges to his death in a plane crash, Lisa is relieved but then she learns that her husband is, in fact, alive and planning to collect insurance money by playing dead.