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The Other Side of Midnight is a 1977
1977 in film

The year 1977 in film involved some significant events....
 American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 film directed by Charles Jarrott
Charles Jarrott

Charles Jarrott is an award-winning director....
 and starring Marie-France Pisier
Marie-France Pisier

Marie-France Pisier is a France actress. She was born on May 10, 1944 in Dalat, Vietnam, Vietnam where her father served as colonial governor. Gilles Pisier is her younger brother, who is a famous mathematician and a member of French academy of sciences....
, John Beck
John Beck (actor)

John Beck is an American actor. He grew up in Joliet, Illinois. Renowned as a gritty actor with plenty of presence on set, he is ultimately best-known worldwide for playing the role of Mark Graison in Dallas during the mid-1980s, but is also well-known for several other roles in which he specialised in playing hard-ball businessmen....
 and Susan Sarandon
Susan Sarandon

Susan Sarandon is an Academy Award-winning American actress. She has worked in films and television since 1970, and won an Oscar for her performance in the 1995 film, Dead Man Walking ....
. Herman Raucher
Herman Raucher

Herman Raucher is an American author who has written several novels and screenplays, among them the popular Summer of '42 and The Great Santini....
 wrote the screenplay for the film based on Sidney Sheldon
Sidney Sheldon

Sidney Sheldon was an Academy Award-winning American writer who won awards in three careers-a Broadway theatre playwright, a Hollywood TV and movie screenwriter, and a best-selling novelist....
’s 1973 novel of the same name
The Other Side of Midnight

The Other Side of Midnight is a 1973 in literature novel by Sidney Sheldon. The book reached No.1 on the New York Times bestseller list. It was made into a 1977 in film The Other Side of Midnight , directed by Charles Jarrott....
.

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World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
, Noelle Page (Marie-France Pisier
Marie-France Pisier

Marie-France Pisier is a France actress. She was born on May 10, 1944 in Dalat, Vietnam, Vietnam where her father served as colonial governor. Gilles Pisier is her younger brother, who is a famous mathematician and a member of French academy of sciences....
), a young and attractive French woman, falls in love with Larry Douglas (John Beck
John Beck (actor)

John Beck is an American actor. He grew up in Joliet, Illinois. Renowned as a gritty actor with plenty of presence on set, he is ultimately best-known worldwide for playing the role of Mark Graison in Dallas during the mid-1980s, but is also well-known for several other roles in which he specialised in playing hard-ball businessmen....
), an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 pilot stationed in France. The couple has a torrid love affair that ends abruptly when Larry receives orders to return to the United States.






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The Other Side of Midnight is a 1977
1977 in film

The year 1977 in film involved some significant events....
 American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 film directed by Charles Jarrott
Charles Jarrott

Charles Jarrott is an award-winning director....
 and starring Marie-France Pisier
Marie-France Pisier

Marie-France Pisier is a France actress. She was born on May 10, 1944 in Dalat, Vietnam, Vietnam where her father served as colonial governor. Gilles Pisier is her younger brother, who is a famous mathematician and a member of French academy of sciences....
, John Beck
John Beck (actor)

John Beck is an American actor. He grew up in Joliet, Illinois. Renowned as a gritty actor with plenty of presence on set, he is ultimately best-known worldwide for playing the role of Mark Graison in Dallas during the mid-1980s, but is also well-known for several other roles in which he specialised in playing hard-ball businessmen....
 and Susan Sarandon
Susan Sarandon

Susan Sarandon is an Academy Award-winning American actress. She has worked in films and television since 1970, and won an Oscar for her performance in the 1995 film, Dead Man Walking ....
. Herman Raucher
Herman Raucher

Herman Raucher is an American author who has written several novels and screenplays, among them the popular Summer of '42 and The Great Santini....
 wrote the screenplay for the film based on Sidney Sheldon
Sidney Sheldon

Sidney Sheldon was an Academy Award-winning American writer who won awards in three careers-a Broadway theatre playwright, a Hollywood TV and movie screenwriter, and a best-selling novelist....
’s 1973 novel of the same name
The Other Side of Midnight

The Other Side of Midnight is a 1973 in literature novel by Sidney Sheldon. The book reached No.1 on the New York Times bestseller list. It was made into a 1977 in film The Other Side of Midnight , directed by Charles Jarrott....
.

Plot

In World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
, Noelle Page (Marie-France Pisier
Marie-France Pisier

Marie-France Pisier is a France actress. She was born on May 10, 1944 in Dalat, Vietnam, Vietnam where her father served as colonial governor. Gilles Pisier is her younger brother, who is a famous mathematician and a member of French academy of sciences....
), a young and attractive French woman, falls in love with Larry Douglas (John Beck
John Beck (actor)

John Beck is an American actor. He grew up in Joliet, Illinois. Renowned as a gritty actor with plenty of presence on set, he is ultimately best-known worldwide for playing the role of Mark Graison in Dallas during the mid-1980s, but is also well-known for several other roles in which he specialised in playing hard-ball businessmen....
), an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 pilot stationed in France. The couple has a torrid love affair that ends abruptly when Larry receives orders to return to the United States. Larry promises Noelle that he will come back for her and marry her. He never does come back and Noelle becomes very bitter. Vowing revenge, Noelle is determined to become rich and famous by using men for their money and power. She becomes a famous actress and marries Greek
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
 multi-millionaire Constantin Demeris (Raf Vallone
Raf Vallone

Raffaele Vallone, known as Raf, , was an Italian actor and an international film star.Born in Tropea, Calabria, Italy, the son of a lawyer, Vallone studied Law and Philosophy at the University of Turin and entered his father's law firm....
) whom she does not love. In the meantime, Larry is married to Catherine Alexander Douglas (Susan Sarandon
Susan Sarandon

Susan Sarandon is an Academy Award-winning American actress. She has worked in films and television since 1970, and won an Oscar for her performance in the 1995 film, Dead Man Walking ....
), a beautiful and very trusting young woman from Chicago
Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
.

Noelle and Larry’s paths cross again. Noelle hires Larry as a pilot for her private jet
Business jet

Business jet, private jet or, colloquially, bizjet is a term describing a jet aircraft, usually of smaller size, designed for transporting groups of business people....
 but he does not recognize her, not even after they rekindle their romance and begin a love affair. Once it becomes clear to him who she is, he informs her that he intends to keep his previous promise and stay with her and leave Catherine. But when Catherine refuses Larry’s request for a divorce, Larry and Noelle plan Catherine’s murder.

Cast and characters

  • Marie-France Pisier
    Marie-France Pisier

    Marie-France Pisier is a France actress. She was born on May 10, 1944 in Dalat, Vietnam, Vietnam where her father served as colonial governor. Gilles Pisier is her younger brother, who is a famous mathematician and a member of French academy of sciences....
     - Noelle Page
  • John Beck
    John Beck (actor)

    John Beck is an American actor. He grew up in Joliet, Illinois. Renowned as a gritty actor with plenty of presence on set, he is ultimately best-known worldwide for playing the role of Mark Graison in Dallas during the mid-1980s, but is also well-known for several other roles in which he specialised in playing hard-ball businessmen....
     - Larry Douglas
  • Susan Sarandon
    Susan Sarandon

    Susan Sarandon is an Academy Award-winning American actress. She has worked in films and television since 1970, and won an Oscar for her performance in the 1995 film, Dead Man Walking ....
     - Catherine Alexander Douglas
  • Raf Vallone
    Raf Vallone

    Raffaele Vallone, known as Raf, , was an Italian actor and an international film star.Born in Tropea, Calabria, Italy, the son of a lawyer, Vallone studied Law and Philosophy at the University of Turin and entered his father's law firm....
     - Constantin Demeris
  • Clu Gulager
    Clu Gulager

    Clu Gulager is an American television and film actor. He is particularly noted for appearing in the 1985 horror movie as the protagonist Burt in The Return of the Living Dead, The Hidden, and The Offspring ....
     - Bill Fraser
  • Christian Marquand
    Christian Marquand

    Christian Marquand was a French director, actor and screenwriter working in French cinema. A native of Marseille, he was the brother of film director Nadine Trintignant....
     - Armand Gautier
  • Michael Lerner - Barbet
  • Sorrell Booke
    Sorrell Booke

    Sorrell Booke was an United States actor who performed on stage, screen, and television. He was a cousin of Max Yasgur, of Woodstock fame. He is best-known for his role as the heavyset, corrupt politician Boss Hogg in the television show The Dukes of Hazzard....
     - Lanchon
  • Antony Ponzini - Paul Metaxas
  • Louis Zorich
    Louis Zorich

    Louis Zorich is an American actor. He is well-known for his portrayal of Paul Reiser's father "Burt Buchman" in the NBC series Mad About You....
     - Demonides
  • Charles Cioffi
    Charles Cioffi

    Charles Cioffi , also credited as Charles M. Cioffi, is an United States television actor.He was born in New York City and attended Michigan State University, where he became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity....
     - Chotas
  • Dimitra Arliss
    Dimitra Arliss

    Dimitra Arliss , sometimes credited as Dimitra Arlys, is a Greek American actress.Arliss became noticed after appearing in Arthur L. Kopit's Broadway theatre play Indians in the 1960s in which she played a Native Americans in the United States character who spoke with an Italian accent....
     - Sister Theresa


The Star Wars Connection

According to the Star Wars
Star Wars

Star Wars is an epic film space opera Media franchise initially conceived by George Lucas. The first film in the franchise was simply titled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, but later had the subtitle Episode IV: A New Hope added to distinguish it from its sequels and prequels....
 documentary Empire of Dreams
Empire of Dreams

Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy is a Documentary film about the making of the Star Wars original trilogy classic Star Wars films: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope , Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back , and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi ....
, since the book was very successful, anticipation was that the film would translate to success at the box office
Box office

A box office is a place where Ticket s are sold to the public for admission to a venue. Patrons may perform the transaction at a countertop, through an unblocked hole through a wall, or at a wicket ....
 and it resulted in 20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation , also known as 20th Century Fox, Fox 2000 Pictures, or simply Fox, is one of the six Worldwide major film studios....
 heavily promoting the film. The studio was promoting Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is an Cinema of the United States 1977 in film space opera film, written and directed by George Lucas. It was the first of six films released in the Star Wars saga: Star Wars#Original trilogy continue the story, while a Star Wars#Prequel trilogy contributes backstory, primarily for the troubled charac...
 at the same time, even as it was controversial for its growing expense. Fearing that Star Wars would be a flop, the studio made a peremptory decision to grant prints of The Other Side of Midnight only to those theaters that agreed to book Star Wars as well.

Ultimately, in spite of the former's massive critical acclaim, The Other Side of Midnight proved to be the box office failure. Despite the controversy surrounding the huge expense involved in the making of Star Wars, the latter ultimately grossed a then-record $237m in North America
North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
 in its first run and would eventually spawn a multi-media franchise
Media franchise

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 that continues to this day.

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