Purple Noon (1961) - (Movie Clip) Low Class Ambition

Purple Noon (1961) -- (Movie Clip) The Inside Is Perfect

Idle-rich Philippe (Maurice Ronet), with tag-along buddy Tom (Alain Delon), has been neglecting girlfriend Marge (Marie Laforet), in Italy studying Fra Angelico, as weirdness becomes explicit, in Rene Clement's Purple Noon, 1961, based on Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley.

Purple Noon (1961) -- (Movie Clip) I Don't Care For Your Pal

Easy to forget they're playing Americans, in Rome, Tom (Alain Delon) has been paid by the father of Philippe (Maurice Ronet) to bring him home, friend Freddy (Billy Kearns) having none of it, opening Rene Clement's treatment of the first Patricia Highsmith "Ripley" novel, Purple Noon, 1961.