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Rene Clement's Purple Noon (Plein Soleil) is a highly successful marriage of at least two movies. By turn a mystery thriller and a beautiful portrait of the Mediterranean, it emerges as a poignant statement of human corruption in a modern Eden...
EXETER: A crime picture which is sometimes spoiled by psychological pre- tensions, PLEIN SOLEIL (Purple Noon) is still the best French supense flicker in some time. It moves quickly through the story of an attempted perfect crime. Spectacular color shots of the Adriatic and Marie de la Foret. Evenings...
...EXETER: PLEIN SOLEIL (Purple Noon), suspense a la Francaise, offers brilliant color shots of Italy and the Adriatic; Alain Delon manipulates capable cast (including the luscious Marie de la Foret) as he attempts "le crime parfait." The dialogue is marred only by a linguistic "embarras de richesse." A fast-paced and well-plotted movie. Evenings...
...Amsterdam's gaudy Rembrandt-plein, a money dealer known as "Kees de Dollarkoning" (Kees the Dollar King) had resorted to hawking leather wallets as a sideline. He used to get six guilders to the dollar, now offers to buy them...
...sweater. After her first song there was a sepulchral silence. "A thousand thoughts went through my mind," she says. "Did my miserable appearance make them feel ashamed?" Then the hall broke into a long thunder of applause. Maurice Chevalier rose to his feet and cried: "Elle en a plein le ventre, la môme" ("The kid's got plenty of stuff...