Purple Noon

Purple Noon
French theatrical release poster
French	Plein soleil
Directed by	René Clément
Screenplay by	René Clément Paul Gégauff
Based on	The Talented Mr. Ripley 1955 novel by Patricia Highsmith
Produced by	Robert Hakim Raymond Hakim
Starring	Alain Delon Marie Laforêt Maurice Ronet
Cinematography	Henri Decaë
Edited by	Françoise Javet
Music by	Nino Rota
Production companies	Robert et Raymond Hakim Paris Film Paritalia Titanus
Distributed by	CCFC (France) Titanus (Italy)
Release dates	10 March 1960 (1960-03-10) (France) 2 September 1960 (1960-09-02) (Italy)
Running time	115 minutes
Countries	France Italy
Language	French
Box office	$618,090 2,437,874 admissions (France)[1]

Purple Noon (French: Plein soleil; Italian: Delitto in pieno sole; also known as Full Sun, Blazing Sun, Lust for Evil, and Talented Mr. Ripley)^[2] is a 1960 crime thriller film starring Alain Delon (in his first major role), alongside Marie Laforêt and Maurice Ronet; Romy Schneider, Delon's girlfriend at the time, makes a brief cameo appearance in the film. Directed by René Clément, the French/Italian international co-production is loosely based on the 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith. The majority of the film's dialogue is spoken in French, although there are brief sequences in Italian and English.

Anthony Minghella's 1999 film The Talented Mr. Ripley and the 2024 streaming television series Ripley are adaptations of the same source novel.