American Friend, The (1977) - (Movie Clip) Let Me Love You For Your Money

American Friend, The (1977) -- (Movie Clip) The Blue's Not Right

Bruno Ganz as the Hamburg picture framer Jonathan, with Winter (the American singer David Blue) bidding, and Dennis Hopper quietly as the forgery purveyor (Patricia Highsmith’s “Tom Ripley”), Rudolf Schündler the owner of the house, Stefan Lennert the auctioneer and Lisa Kreuzer as the clerk, Jonathan’s wife, a finely wrought scene from Wim Wenders’ The American Friend, 1977.

American Friend, The (1977) -- (Movie Clip) My German Is Terrible

Dennis Hopper in Hamburg as forgery dealer Tom Ripley (the character from a then-unpublished Patricia Highsmith novel) has grown interested in terminally-ill highly-regarded picture framer Jonathan (Bruno Ganz), after an unpleasant first encounter, Gerty Molzen the customer, in Wim Wender’s The American Friend, 1977.

American Friend, The (1977) -- (Movie Clip) What's Wrong With A Cowboy In Hamburg?

With notes about the restoration, and calm and clever as can be, writer-director Wim Wenders opens his treatment of the unpublished Patricia Highsmith novel, in which he cast directors and actor-directors as the criminals, with Dennis Hopper as Tom Ripley in New York visiting Nicholas Ray as the forger “Derwatt,” in The American Friend, 1977.