The Other Side of Midnight

Directed by Charles Jarrott (Anne of the Thousand Days), The Other Side of Midnight (1977) is a spectacularly epic adaptation of Sidney Sheldon’s melodrama focusing on the rise of a French shopgirl, Noelle (the great Marie-France Pisier). After a torrid World War II-era love affair with an American pilot, Larry (John Beck), leaves her abandoned and pregnant, Noelle vows revenge – which includes becoming a fashion model, an international movie star, and the mistress of a staggeringly wealthy Greek tycoon (Raf Vallone). Susan Sarandon co-stars as Larry’s perky post-war wife, and Clu Gulager is thankfully around, too. Appropriately fabulous score by Michel Legrand, available on this Twilight Time release as an isolated track.