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Purple Noon: Directed by René Clément. With Alain Delon, Marie Laforêt, Maurice Ronet, Erno Crisa. Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess.
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- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- René Clément
- 1960-03-10
Jul 24, 2022 · Featuring gorgeous location photography of coastal Italy, Purple Noon is crafted with a light touch that allows it to be at once suspenseful and erotic, and it gave Delon the role of a lifetime. Directed by René Clément. Written by René Clément & Paul Gégauff.
- 118 min
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Handsome young American Tom Ripley has been sent to Italy by the father of wealthy playboy Philippe Greenleaf to persuade him to return to San Franciscoand take over the family business. Philippe has no intention of doing so, and the impoverished Tom falls into sharing in his escapades. Tom becomes fixated on Philippe and his fiancée, Marge, and co...
Director Clément has an uncredited cameo appearance in the film as a clumsy waiter, and Romy Schneider, who was Delon's girlfriend when the film was made, has an uncredited cameo appearance as one of Freddy's female companions in the film's opening scene. 1. Marie Laforêt (as Marge Duval) and Alain Delon (as Tom Ripley)
Delon was cast after Clément saw him in Women Are Weak (1959). Billy Kearnswas an expatriate American actor well-liked in France. Screenwriter Paul Gégauff wrote a variation on the same story in 1968 when he worked on Les biches with Claude Chabrol.
Purple Noon was lauded by critics and made Delon a star. In 1962, Clément and Gégauff won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Foreign Film Screenplay. The film enjoys a loyal cult following even today, with fans including film director Martin Scorsese. Roger Ebert gave the film three stars (compared to the four-star review h...
In 2012, StudioCanal funded a restoration of the film by the Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, to be shown at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival as part of an homageto Delon's career prior to a theatrical re-release in (at least) France. On 4 December 2012, The Criterion Collection released the high-definition digital restoration of Purple Noon on Blu-ray ...
Purple Noon at IMDbPurple Noon at the TCM Movie DatabasePurple Noon at AllMoviePurple Noon at Rotten TomatoesPurple Noon (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Low Class Ambition With girlfriend Marge (Marie Laforet), Philippe (Maurice Ronet), whose father is paying Tom (Alain Delon) to bring him home to the states, launches on a yacht trip from Rome to Sicily, tensions emerging, in Rene Clement's Purple Noon, 1961, from a Patricia Highsmith novel.
- René Clément
- Alain Delon
Tom Ripley (Alain Delon) travels to Italy to visit his playboy friend Phillippe Greenleaf (Maurice Ronet) and Phillippe's new fiancée, Marge Duval (Marie Laforêt).
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- René Clément
- PG-13
- Alain Delon
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Synopsis. He’s twenty-five. She’s thirty-five. He is a young agricultural engineer. She runs a nightclub in Cahors. He’s a runner and a pretty boy. She’s beautiful and unscrupulous. They like each other.
