Cinema: Messy Mnages

Purple Noon (Times Film Corp.). Tom will do anything for money, except work. Lucky boy. he has his looks, and because of them he has Philip, a rich young degenerate he met at school in San Francisco. Sometimes together, sometimes as a messy menage a trois with Philip's mistress, they live the sweet life in the pleasure pots of southern Italy. But all is not pleasure in the parasite's paradise. Philip (Maurice Ronet) uses Tom (Alain Delon) to run small errands, keeps a firm grip on the purse strings, taunts him with his poverty, and one day, just for kicks, sets...

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