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The American Friend
(1977)
Genre(s):
Assassinations, Books to Film: Patricia Highsmith, Contemporary Noir, Mystery & Suspense
Cast:
Bruno Ganz, Dennis Hopper, Elisabeth (Lisa) Kreuzer, Gerard Blain, Jean Eustache, Samuel Fuller, Nicholas Ray, Daniel Schmid, Lou Castel, Rudolf Schuendler, Sandy Whitelaw; CAMEO(S): Wim Wenders; DIRECTED BY: Wim Wenders; WRITTEN BY: Wim Wenders; CINEMATOGRAPHY BY: Robby Muller; MUSIC BY: Jurgen Knieper. PRODUCER: Wim Wenders.
Review:
Tribute to the American gangster film helped introduce Wenders to American moviegoers. Young Hamburg picture framer thinks he has a terminal disease and is set up by American expatriate Hopper to become a hired assassin in West Germany. The lure is a promise of quick money that the supposedly dying man can then leave his wife and child. After the first assasination, the two bond. Hopper is the typical Wenders protagonist, a strange man in a strange land looking for a connection. Great, creepy thriller adapted from Patricia Highsmith's novel "Ripley's Game." Fuller and Ray (better known as directors) appear briefly as gangsters.
NSS:
77-845
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