Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Pre-New Wave French film noir thriller directed by Rene Clement based on the novel & The Talented Mr Ripley& by Patricia Highsmith & shot on the warm & glowing Mediterranean coast Alain Delon stars in his debut leading role as Tom Ripley a young American who is paid by the wealthy Greenleaf family to travel to Europe to persuade his friend errant playboy Philip Greenleaf (Maurice Ronet) to return to the family home in San Francisco When he gets there Tom discovers that Philip has it all
- including a beautiful fiancee Marge (Marie Laforet)
- & begins to covet his luxurious lifestyle Philip initially amused by Tom&s arrival soon tires of him & as Tom begins to find himself excluded from Philip&s coterie his envy takes a murderous turn Highsmith&s novel was later adapted by Hollywood as & The Talented Mr Ripley& (1999) starring Matt Damon Jude Law & Gwyneth Paltrow