Five Miles to Midnight

• Sophia Loren: Lisa Macklin
• Anthony Perkins: Robert Macklin
• Gig Young: David Barnes
• Jean -Pierre Aumont: Alan Steward
• Tommy Norden: Harry
• Yolande Turner: Barbara Ford
• Billy Kearns: Captain Wade
• Barbara Nicot: Regine
• Mathilde Casadesus: Madame Duval

The third dimension ( original title: La troisieme dimensionless ) is a French-Italian thriller of the Nouvelle Vague by Anatole Litvak from the year 1962.

Action

The attractive Lisa leads an unhappy marriage with the morbidly jealous and violent Robert. When he crashes on a business trip by plane and reported that there were no survivors, the problems of fun-loving young woman tragically seem to solve itself. The greater the shock for her when Robert shows up a short time later. He wants Lisa to him cashing his stately life insurance and gives him. But he promises to stay out of her life in the future. Lisa agrees and examined while they prepared the fraud, the proximity to good-hearted journalist David Barnes, which they can not disclose the suspects, however, what is going on. In the money transfer Robert wants nothing more to do with his promise and wants to force her to stay with him Lisa. The desperate Lisa makes a fatal decision.

Criticism

"Despite the star-studded Anatole Litvak's convinced thriller only partially, because it only works on an emotional level. If you switch the logic one, then you are lost here fast. Convincing though are the performances of the two main characters: Anthony Perkins, who became two years earlier with "Psycho" star overnight, plays the diabolical husband, Sophia Loren is the tortured wife ".