PLEIN SOLEIL (1960)

RENE CLEMENT

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Cast

ALAIN DELON MARIE LAFORET MAURICE RONET ELVIRE POPESCO ERNO CRISA FRANCK LATIMORE BILL KEARNS AVE NINCHI PATRICIA HIGHSMITH

Plot

Ripley is a young man with a single minded determination to make his fortune and he's unfettered by the constraints of morality or social conscience. Philippe Greenleaf is the object of his desire, a charismatic playboy at large in the hedonism of 60s Roma. Having eased himself into Philippe's world Ripley gradually steals the man's identity, a job he sets about with cold, psychotic charm. Plein Soleil is an immensely stylish and intense thriller, adapted from Patricia Highsmith's novel, with a mesmerising performance from Delon in the central role.