You went pretty far. What kind of game is this?
The first film adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley was René Clément's Purple Noon, which was made in 1960 and -- along with Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers -- made a star of Alain Delon. Unlike Anthony Minghella's 1999 remake, this film jumps right into the action with Tom Ripley already living it up with Philippe Greenleaf (Maurice Ronet), the American playboy Ripley has been hired to bring back to San Francisco. Clément doesn't spend as much time on exploring Ripley's psychology as Highsmith or Minghella, preferring to watch without comment as Ripley drives a wedge between Greenleaf and his fiancée Marge (Marie Laforêt) and then, once she's out of the picture, assumes his identity. If Ripley has a talent for anything, it is for improvisation and knowing how to make a narrow escape, but the law still catches up with him in the end. The film world of 1960 wasn't ready to present a criminal that gets away with it.