WGA Registered
Between Heaven and Hell
an
original screenplay
by
Charles Deemer
Logline: A shy English professor is given a night with a young call girl
for his 50th birthday. His
subsequent obsession with her leads him into a new and strange world of murder
and blackmail, where he must learn new skills to survive.
Synopsis: Bertrand
Hodgeworth is a shy, even dull, English professor whose specialty is William
Blake. He teaches his classes and looks
forward to a sabbatical in London, where he plans to work on a new book.
Then
a rich foreign student gives him an unusual 50th birthday
present: a night with Nicole, a young
and bright call girl. She awakens in
the professor a sensuality that he hasn’t experienced in years, and he becomes
obsessed with seeing her again. He
becomes one of her regular clients.
His
obsession grows to the extent that he cancels his trip to London in order to be
able to see her. Then he learns that
the same student who bought him the birthday night with her is also obsessed -
with Nicole’s roommate, Maureen. Nicole
asks the professor to talk to the student about leaving Maureen alone.
But
when Bertrand visits the student, he finds his dead body on the floor. Not knowing what else to do, he flees, later
reporting the body anonymously from a phone booth.
Bertrand,
being a teacher of the victim, is questioned, but the police don’t seem to know
if it was murder or suicide. Then
Bertrand finds a key taped into the inside of a term paper that the student
turned in. Not knowing what else to do,
he takes the key to Nicole and Maureen.
Behind
Bertrand’s back, developments have been happening. One of Maureen’s clients
is a plant, working for the police:
Nicole and Maureen have been picking up wealthy executives and blackmailing
them with photos. The student who was
killed, in fact, was working as their photographer. The key is to a locker where the money has been stored, and the
student had stolen it in fear that he was being squeezed out of the scam.
But
Bertrand knows none of this, and when Nicole suggests a vacation together,
which in fact is a plan to help the women skip the country , he goes
along. Only when he stumbles across an
athletic bag of money does he begin to
put two and two together.
Nicole
and Maureen are on a plane to Europe before they realize what has happened: the
shy, dull English professor has beat them at their own game.
And
Bertrand is relishing in his new sensuality - and new wealth - with a lovely,
former student at a resort.