The Other Side of Midnight

This movie is one of my FAVORITEs , it is under rated. If you watch this you will absolutely love the story line Captivating film, Love, sadness, revenge to get the love of her life....you have to watch it !

Excellent quality

I love this classic movie!! Excellent quality video, also!!!

The movie followed the book exceptionally well.

There is a great deal of fun to be had with Charles Jarrot's potboiler, "The Other Side of Midnight", if you don't take it too seriously, which is, apparently, what critics did when they widely panned the film upon its original release in 1977. A lavish soap opera with hand-wringing melodrama, cringeworthy dialogue, and a running time of just under three hours, "The Other Side of Midnight" works precisely because of a High Hollywood pedigree that has, sadly, gone the way of the dinosaur, as well as its straight-faced camp. The Latin American telenovelas are currently thriving with this kind of fare, and it's easy to imagine Pedro Almodovar re-making this film in his own signature style; with its twisting turns of passion and revenge, "The Other Side of Midnight" is operatic on a grand scale. The heroine (anti-heroine?) is Noelle Page, an innocent, young French girl from Marseilles whose father sells her to a horny old Parisian with a hairy back (played by Sorrell Booke, who later gained prominence (?) as Boss Hogg on "The Dukes of Hazzard"). One roll in the sack later, Noelle runs off and meets up with American Lothario/soldier, Larry Douglas (John Beck), who rapidly impregnates her and then hits the road, with promises that he will return to marry the smitten Noelle when he returns from his assignment. Meanwhile, in the U.S., the country is preparing to enter WWII, and spunky Catherine Alexander (Susan Sarandon) is making headway as personnel assistant to the head of a top PR firm. Larry meets Catherine, marries her, and forgets all about the poor little French girl he left behind in Paris. However, she doesn't forget about him. Once Noelle discovers what Larry has gone off and done, she is driven to acquire fame and fortune at any cost, which is to say that she spends a good deal of the movie undressed and lolling in the beds of various powerful men. Once she achieves the pinnacle of material wealth by taking up with billionaire Greek, Raf Vallone, she makes sure that hers and Larry's paths cross again. Which will not bode well for everyone. With one double cross after another, "Midnight" may be short on logic but it is never dull. As Noelle Page, raven-haired Marie-France Pisier does a credible job and is exquisitely beautiful, too; it's a shame that she didn't make more movies outside of Europe, because she was a radiant performer who should have become a much bigger star (if she'd wanted to). Susan Sarandon, for all that I admire and respect her now, sort of reminds me of a boozing Olive Oyl in this film; with her squeaky voice and lanky frame, she's a million miles away from the sexy parts she played in "Pretty Baby", "Bull Durham", and "Atlantic City". Her Catherine has the worst lines in the film, but, the fact is, she never seems like a fully fleshed out character, anyway. It's the idea of Catherine, and what she represents, that is supposed to make us, the audience, root for her, but it's "bad girl", Noelle, who is the more interesting of the two. Caught between the two ladies is John Beck, who I never thought was much of an actor, but he has the right stalwart, square-jawed look that is appealing, without any suggestion of real depth--which is perfect for the role of Larry. The DVD looks great, enhancing the beautifully filmed locations, not to mention the beautiful people doing not-so-beautiful things. Well worth the cost, "The Other Side of Midnight" is a rare treat, a film not often seen anymore.

Sharp colors and pictures

"The Other Side Of Midnight"(1977) has plenty going for it as a collectible DVD. First of all the story is a fascinating character study of the extreme lengths a woman is willing to go to get revenge on a man who wronged her. In this case, Noelle Paige (Marie-France Pissier) has a brief but torrid love affair on the eve of World War 2 with American soldier and pilot Larry Douglas(John Beck), who is stationed in Paris. Unknown to Douglas, she ends up even getting pregnant, but he fails to keep his promise to return and marry her. On the very day and date he insisted he would meet her in their favorite Paris restaurant and tie the knot, he stands her up. By this time, he has actually met and married American girl Catherine Alexander (Susan Sarandon). The rest of the movie details Noelle's efforts to bed her way to the top of France's social ladder, first as a fashion model, an actress and finally as the lover of one of the richest Greek magnates in Europe (Raf Vallone). Her growing power and influence make it extremely difficult for her ex-lover to land a civilian job as a pilot after the war, which was in fact her very intent. She now has the connections and the power to see to it that the only job he can get is working for her, where she finally has him where she wants him. She exacts her revenge at last. The beautiful French and Greek cinematography, coupled with the stirring musical score by Michel Legrand add the perfect finishing touches on this engrossing epic. 20th Century Fox Home Video should be highly commended for doing this beautiful film justice. The pristine wide-screen color presentation, coupled with the beautifully recorded Michel Legarand musical score, make this film treatment of Sidney Sheldon's popular novel a real keeper.

My mom loves this movie

Die DVD liess sich nicht abspielen, da DVD von USA gesendet wurde und dort ein anderes System verwendet wird. Ich habe die DVD deshalb retournieren müssen. Es hegen auch Zweifel, ob die Qualität mit EU DVD's identisch ist.

buena película

Great classic from the year I was born!! Hard to find.

Super film ! Marie-France Pisier éblouissante. Il y a un moment que je recherchai ce film

What great fun this movie is! Sold as "A romance of passion and power" this is a wonderfully trashy film, based on a trashy novel, but my word it works! Great cast, great sets and beautiful locations support an epic tale which goes on for hours, quite literally. 2 hours and 45 minutes to be precise. John Beck and Mari-France Pisier are great in the leads but it's Susan Sarandon who steals the honours as a women who suffers but I won't spoil it for you, by telling you how. Apart from one, very frank sex scene involving ice cubes (!) this could have been a Joan Crawford or Bette Davis's movie. I suggest you see it on your own, on a wet Sunday evening, with no family or friends anywhere in sight and a box of chocolates close at hand. What a guilty pleasure you have in store.