Wim Wenders pays loving homage to rough-and-tumble Hollywood film noir with The American Friend, a loose adaptation of Patricia Highsmiths novel Ripleys Game. Dennis Hopper oozes quirky menace as an amoral American art dealer who entangles a terminallyill German everyman, played by Bruno Ganz, in a seedy criminal underworld as revenge for a personal slightbut when the two become embroiled in an ever-deepening murder plot, they form an unlikely bond. Filmed on location in Hamburg and Paris, with some scenes shot in grimy, late-seventies New York City, Wenderss international breakout is a stripped-down crime story that mixes West German and American film flavors, and it features cameos by filmmakers Jean Eustache, Samuel Fuller, and Nicholas Ray.
Wim Wenders pays loving homage to rough-and-tumble Hollywood film noir with The American Friend, a loose adaptation of Patricia Highsmiths novel Ripleys Game. Dennis Hopper oozes quirky menace as an amoral American art dealer who entangles a terminallyill German everyman, played by Bruno Ganz, in a seedy criminal underworld as revenge for a personal slightbut when the two become embroiled in an ever-deepening murder plot, they form an unlikely bond. Filmed on location in Hamburg and Paris, with some scenes shot in grimy, late-seventies New York City, Wenderss international breakout is a stripped-down crime story that mixes West German and American film flavors, and it features cameos by filmmakers Jean Eustache, Samuel Fuller, and Nicholas Ray.
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