Purple Noon

Purple Noon Italian Delitto in pieno sole , French Plein Soleil , aka Full Sun, Blazing Sun, Lust for Evil and Talented Mr. Ripley is a 1960 film directed by Ren Clment, based on the 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith. The film stars Alain Delon in his first major film, along with Maurice Ronet as Philippe Greenleaf and Marie Lafort as Marge Romy Schneider appears briefly in an uncredited role as Freddie Miles companion, and Billy Kearns an expatriate American actor well liked in France plays Greenleafs friend Freddy Miles. The film, principally in French, contains brief sequences in Italian.

The American Tom Ripley Delon has been sent to Italy to persuade his wealthy friend, Philippe Greenleaf Maurice Ronet, to return to the United States and take over his fathers business. Philippe intends to do no such thing and the impoverished Tom enjoys living a life of luxury, so the two men essentially spend money all day and carouse all night. Tom is fixated on Philippe and his girlfriend Marge Marie Lafort and covets the other mans life. Philippe eventually grows bored with his friends fawning and becomes cruel and abusive to him. The final straw is when, during a yachting trip, Philippe strands Tom in the dinghy and leaves him to lie in the sun for hours.Back on board, Tom hatches a plan to kill Philippe and steal his identity. First, he leaves evidence of Philippes philandering for an outraged Marge to find. After Marge goes ashore, Philippe confronts Tom, who admits his plan quite casually. Philippe, believing it to be a joke, plays along and asks Tom for the plans details. Suddenly frightened, Philippe offers Tom a substantial sum to leave him and Marge alone but Tom states that he can obtain this sum anyway and far more. At last pretending to accept his offer, Tom stabs Philippe to death as the latter screams Marges name. He casts the body overboard and returns to port. ........

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