If you are looking for a good, fun melodrama, certain titles come to mind (Peyton Place, Dark Victory); but if you want to laugh in a very superior way at the blunders of others, this is certainly as good a place to start as any. The Other Side of Midnight has it all: horrible dialogue (bonus points for breathless delivery!); flat, miniseries-inspired direction; ugly cinematography; a hideous music score; and valiant bad acting. This is a juicy slab o' cheese, slightly aged for maximum odor. The one-two-three outrageousness of the plotting kept cracking me up (motives are ridiculously basic, and methods of achieving goal are hilariously protracted), and "surprise" ending--please, you can see it coming from veritable MILES away--just leaves you gasping with laughter. I rated this a "1" as a regular movie, but on the camp scale, it comes pretty close to "10"--rent it by all means!
Review of The Other Side of Midnight
