Die dritte Dimension

Originaltitel: Le couteau dans la plaie

1962
16
1 Std. 49 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,2/10

1298

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Lisa Macklin, an Italian woman, has a fight with her American husband Robert in a Paris night club. He leaves the next day for a business trip and Lisa says she does not want to see him again. She is with newspaperman Alan Stewart that evening when she learns Robert's plane has crashed with no survivors. Waking from sedation after the funeral, Lisa finds Robert in their flat, injured but alive. He was thrown clear of the crash by a lucky twist of fate. He now plans to collect the $120,000 insurance he took out at the airport. Once Lisa collects the money and turns it over to him, she will finally be rid of him. She attempts to get advice from Stewart, but he has been replaced by David Barnes. Lisa's life becomes a tortuous ordeal, at work, at home, faced with a fugitive husband and a growing love for David, who suspects everything.

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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuLisa Macklin, an Italian woman, has a fight with her American husband Robert in a Paris night club. He leaves the next day for a business trip and Lisa says she does not want to see him agai... Alles lesenLisa Macklin, an Italian woman, has a fight with her American husband Robert in a Paris night club. He leaves the next day for a business trip and Lisa says she does not want to see him again. She is with newspaperman Alan Stewart that evening when she learns Robert's plane has c... Alles lesenLisa Macklin, an Italian woman, has a fight with her American husband Robert in a Paris night club. He leaves the next day for a business trip and Lisa says she does not want to see him again. She is with newspaperman Alan Stewart that evening when she learns Robert's plane has crashed with no survivors. Waking from sedation after the funeral, Lisa finds Robert in the... Alles lesen

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,2/10

1298

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Wissenswertes
Bob's $120,000 life insurance policy payout, adjusted to inflation, is equivalent to over $1,200,00 in 2023.

Patzer
At the 1962 exchange rate, the $120,000 insurance pay-out would have equaled about 600,000 French francs, not the 60,000,000 francs as stated in the film.

Zitate
Barbara Ford: I've given up eating. It's soooo old fashioned.

Verbindungen
Featured in Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963)

Soundtracks
Leçon de Twist
(Twistin' the Twist)
Music by Jerry Mengo
Lyrics by Danyel Gérard and Lucien Morisse

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Ausgewählte Rezension

6/10

Life is a masquerade

Five Miles To Midnight is another of those Alfred Hitchcock type films that could have been a classic had he decided to do them. I think he was busy with The Birds when this came out.

Sophia Loren is the star both in billing and performance. She's married to former American GI Anthony Perkins and it's an abusive relationship. Perkins has to take a flight to Casablanca, but the plane crashes near Bordeaux and miracle of miracles he survives but is not found.

What a golden opportunity for a little insurance fraud. And a battered Sophia goes along with it. The rest of the film is the masquerade that Loren plays as she pretends he's dead like everyone suspects and what she endures with an increasingly unbalanced Perkins.

When Sophia Loren won her Oscar for Two Women she showed her acting chops and this film also has a lot more to do with Sophia the actress than Sophia the sex symbol. As for Anthony Perkins he started out playing callow youths with issues. After Psycho he started out playing far more deranged characters with issues although his character here is descending into a bit of madness unlike Norman Bates who was one fully formed whack job.

Other men in Sophia's life are Gig Young and Jean-Pierre Aumont. Won't give any ending away because in the end we don't know what's to become of the main characters most especially Sophia Loren.