One of the myriad imitation-Hitchcocks from France, and one of the handful from director René Clément alone: an adaptation of the first of Patricia Highsmith's five Ripley novels. (Wim Wenders's The American Friend is an adaptation of the third.) Like Hitchcock's own Highsmith adaptation, Strangers on a Train, this one is a bit compromised and conventionalized in comparison to the novel, but the details of the sociopathic hero's assumption of a new identity (that of the man he murders) are fascinatingly filled in, and the richly colored Mediterranean photography by Henri Decae is top-grade. Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforet. (1961) — Duncan Shepherd
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