Purple Noon

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.

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.

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.