Description:Plot synopsis: Young Tom Ripley (Delon) is sent to Italy to convince reckless playboy Philippe Greenleaf (Ronet) to return back home to his rich family. Instead, the pair become friends and spend their days idling on the beach and partying at nightclubs. Tom, who is poor, soon gets used to this wealthy lifestyle. After Philippe gets bPlot synopsis: Young Tom Ripley (Delon) is sent to Italy to convince reckless playboy Philippe Greenleaf (Ronet) to return back home to his rich family. Instead, the pair become friends and spend their days idling on the beach and partying at nightclubs. Tom, who is poor, soon gets used to this wealthy lifestyle. After Philippe gets bored with Tom and tries to brush him off, Tom devises a plan to get rid of Philippe and steal his life.... (more)(less)
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Purple Noon starts almost oddly right in the middle of action, when Alain Delon and Maurice Ronet are having fun in the night of Italy. It is told that Delon is an old friend of Ronet and he has been send to get Ronet's character back to America, where he's from, out of his father's orders. But the mission is not the priority, when there's fun to be hand and money to be spend. Well none of that really matters, when Delon soon show's his true colors and put's in motion his big plan, wh"
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In his first major movie role, Alain Delon plays the callously conniving Tom Ripley. Sure, he's a stone-cold fox, but watch out bitches: he doesn't play fair!
Ripley leeches off his rich (supposed) friend Philippe Greenleaf, but when Greenleaf gets sick of him, he begins treating Ripley sadistically, as if he were nothing but a subhuman throwaway object. Ripley of course does not take too well to being treated like garbage, and so he gets his vengeance soon enough. And so the movie swims a"
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Director: René Clément
Cast: Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt, Erno Crisa
Story: 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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