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Purple Noon (1960)

★ 7.6 · 594 ratings on TMDB

Passion at ten. Envy at eleven. Murder at noon.

Purple Noon poster★ 7.6

Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess.

DirectorRené Clément
CastAlain Delon, Ave Ninchi, Barbel Fanger, Billy Kearns, Erno Crisa, Frank Latimore
GenresCrime, Drama, Thriller
The emergence reading

Purple Noon keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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