Larry and Noelle ultimately are convicted of murder by a Greek court, which is under the influence of Constantin Demeris. They carry out their plan, but things go wrong. Larry claims he will keep his long-ago promise and stay with her, but when his wife refuses a request for a divorce, Larry and Noelle begin to plot Catherine’s murder. When he is positive it is her, he bursts into Noelle's hotel suite, where they rekindle their romance. Noelle treats him rudely until Larry is not sure how much more he can take.

Larry is in no position to refuse a job offer to come to Greece and be a private pilot, unaware that it is Noelle who is hiring him. Noelle hires a detective to keep tabs on him, then sabotages any job Larry is able to find. He seduces the virginal Catherine with some of the same lines he used with Noelle.Īfter the war, Larry is employed by various civilian airlines. Larry is now a United States Army Air Forces fighter pilot. Larry meets her in Hollywood, where she has gone to produce a film promoting military enlistment. She seduces her way into becoming a famous European actress, then arranges to be the mistress of one of the world's wealthiest men, Greek tycoon Constantin Demeris, whom she does not love.ĭuring this time, Larry has met and married Catherine Alexander, a sweet and trusting young woman from Chicago. Vowing revenge after a harrowing abortion, Noelle begins using men for their money and power. She later finds out that she is pregnant with his child. Larry promises to come back for Noelle and marry her.

The couple has a torrid love affair that ends abruptly when Larry receives orders to return to the United States. In France just before the outbreak of World War II, young Noelle Page falls in love with Larry Douglas, an American pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force stationed in France. Herman Raucher and Daniel Taradash wrote the screenplay based on Sidney Sheldon's 1973 novel of the same name. The Other Side of Midnight is a 1977 American drama film directed by Charles Jarrott and starring Marie-France Pisier, John Beck, and Susan Sarandon.

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