I read the novel years ago and loved it. I didn't know there was movie about it, and I'm wondering if it's as good as the novel? I hope they didn't change the characters around too much.
Also, is there anywhere online where I can see photos of this movie? I haven't found any and I'm curious as to how the characters looked.
Nope. Book is MUCH better. I've seen a few of Sidney Sheldon's books made into movies and none of them are very good.
That's true. Though I wasn't too disappointed with If Tomorrow Comes, actually kind of liked that one. I hated Memories of Midnight. Rage of Angels sucked big time. Oh well, it's a shame about The Other Side of Midnight, I always thought that book had the potential to be a really good movie.
sharethere is a site where I saw a clip of the movie. when I find it I will send it to you. I hear the movie is very very good. I'm looking for a copy.
shareI saw a clip on movie detective. just type in the other side of midnight.It also had a cost of 24 dollars at amozon.com
shareOh cool! Thanks, I'll try that right now! :-)
shareJust an update on the Amazon availability... I tried to order it on VHS (the only format offered) back in February when it was still shown as an Amazon product. Got immediate notice that it was on backorder, with monthly updates since then.
I've kept it as a 'will wait for it' item, but will be cancelling now that I bid on and won a widescreen DVD copy on ebay. No doubt it's a bootleg, but that's cool with me. :-)
It was on Fox Movie Channel, twice last night. It's a channel that runs movies uncut. They usually show a movie all month, if you want to check it out?
"Stay young at heart and you'll never grow hard"....E.W.F.
Thanks, EM463! Good to know this guilty pleasure is getting airtime!
The DVD arrived the other day and it's VERY good quality... I'm a happy camper! :-)
It is.........well, different. If you'll remember, in the book (which I read years ago, and am seriously considering rereading), Sheldon had Noelle as something of a heroine, dealing with the Nazis and all, and her "vendetta" against Larry was almost a sub-plot. In the movie, it's ALL ABOUT the vendetta. Sheldon apparently hated the movie because it wasn't like his book, and I can give him that. But I thought the movie (especially that beauty Marie France-Pisier) is great. Susan and John Beck and Raf Vallone......all play their parts to the hilt. Is the bootleg DVD any good. I would love to get a copy. The video sucks.
Let me know.
The bootleg I got from eBay is very good quality. The seller even set it up with music and "Chapters."
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I remember reading this book years ago when I was a young teen. I may have been 14 or so. I smile thinking of my Mom warning me that it had "dirty parts". Probably my first novel where sex was described! Her warnings were priceless...
Anyway, just watched the movie on FXM (Cablevision NJ) and nothing ever lives up to book reading for me. Seems an author can get into so much more detail, describing the characters feelings, thoughts, etc.
I remember reading every Sheldon novel, only to be disappointed as each book came out. He seemed to have lost something as time went on. I loved this book and remember savoring each page. His later books could be read in 2 hours. Seemed double spaced, large type, and quickly turned out. Bloodline was also excellent by Sheldon!!
Hugs,
Janice
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You know, movies like this one are like junk food: You know it is not haute cuisine. You know it is just empty calories with a little real taste. But it still tastes good, and that's why we love it for those times when we want it. I don't always want to see "Vertigo" or "Grand Illusion" when I wanna see a film. Sometimes I want nothing more than Cheddar Cheese Pop Corn. And I think for those moments, this film is ideal. It doesn't get boring, the acting is not abysmally bad, and a couple of laffs are thrown in as well. I liked it.
Allen Roth
"I look up, I look down..."
I also read (and re-read countless times) this book when I was in my mid-teens; I think it was the first book I read that had any "dirty parts." In the years that passed, I read all of Sidney Sheldon's books (including his first novel, "The Naked Face") and loved them all until "Windmills of the Gods" in which he borrowed a plot/character device from (I believe) Mickey Spillane. As Janice noted, above, his later books (including "Memories of Midnight," the sequel to "The Other Side of Midnight") were printed in large type, double-spaced and could be finished in two hours.
It's too bad HBO wasn't around when this movie was made--it would have been much better as a mini-series. "Master of the Game" was filmed as a mini-series back in the 80's and was far better than this movie (although a little dated by today's standards). Perhaps we would have seen more of the backstories of Noelle and Katherine, allowing both of them to be multidimensional characters rather than the rather one-note characters that resulted in this movie.
I've always found it ironic that Sidney Sheldon's books, which were such guilty pleasures, were such disappointments as movies. Actually, it's doubly ironic considering that he was a successful screewriter (The Patty Duke Show, I Dream of Jeannie, Hart to Hart, Easter Parade, Annie Get Your Gun).
It's not as good as the book, but it was still a good film in its own right. Many critics believe that had 20th Century Fox actually made some effort to promote this film (instead of neglecting it and many other promising films of the same era) to throw full weight behind the first Star Wars film, "The Other Side of Midnight" might have done much better commercially than it did
shareThe book is brilliant and the movie is mediocre at best. So not even close. I also hated the cast of this film. Larry and Noelle are not what they should be
shareI also hated the cast of this film. Larry and Noelle are not what they should be
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Actually I thought that in the film they got Larry spot on! Agree that Noelle was totally miscast though
The movie's Noelle was a somewhat sympathetic and tragic figure; the book's "heroine" was a total bitch (except when she helped Dr. Katz--something so totally out of character for her). I found her execution in the novel to be satisfying; justice was done.
shareBook is much better. The movie is very faithful to the book, but only so much can be put into 165 minutes. Some of the story was glossed over for time sake.
shareThe other thing about "Memories of Midnight" was about a quarter of it was rehasing "The Other Side of Midnight"! Veyr annoying when authors do that.
I already read the first book, now I want to read the second! Jackie Collins does it too I hear
Obi-Wan is my hero!
The book is much, much better. It's fast, racy and intriguing. The pace of the movie is slow, and Susan sarandon is the only one of the leads who brings her character to LIFE and is enjoyable to watch. She's actually funny!
Marie France Pisier is a lovely but somewhat solemn figure...and she doesn't come across as the heady, sensational bombshell she's supposed to be in the book, who no man can resist. John Beck is a washout as the male lead, and almost completely forgetable...like a really low-wattage Nick Nolte.
1 out of 3 isn't that great. (The costumes, by veteran designer Irene Sharaff, are very pretty, though.)
I thought Noelle a total bitch in the book. BOOK SPOILER AHEAD
Does anybody remember how, when she was pregnant with Larry's baby, she waited until she was sure the fetus could feel pain before she self aborted as some sort of sick way of punishing Larry? I was glad she was executed just for that reason. I don't recall that part being in the movie.
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