Le Couteau dans la plaie (1962)

Le Couteau dans la plaie is a French-Italian film first released in 1962, directed by Anatole Litvak.  The film stars Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Gig Young, Jean-Pierre Aumont and Yolande Turner.  It has also been released under the title: Five Miles to Midnight.  Our overall rating for this film is: good.


To escape a life of misery in Italy after the war, Lisa marries Robert Macklin, an unstable and jealous man.  In Paris, where she works in a beauty parlour, Lisa becomes increasingly distressed by Robert’s erratic behaviour.  One day, Robert has to go away for a business trip.  On the way to the airport, Lisa tells him about her intention to divorce him.  A few hours later, Lisa hears that her husband’s aeroplane has crashed and that there are apparently no survivors.  Lisa thinks that, at last, she can start a new life, but it isn’t so.  Robert did not take the aeroplane and returns to Paris incognito.  He coerces Lisa in a diabolical plan that will allow him to cash in on his life insurance...
© Willems Henri (Brussels, Belgium)

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