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The American Friend
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crime.
- Motion pictures, French.
- Motion pictures, German.
- Detective and mystery films.
- Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.).
- Drama.
- Motion pictures.
- Horror films.
- Genre:
- Feature films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (128 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Place of Publication:
- The Criterion Collection 1977
- [San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2022
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- digital
- video file MPEG-4 Flash
- Summary:
- Wim Wenders pays loving homage to rough-and-tumble Hollywood film noir with THE AMERICAN FRIEND, a loose adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel "Ripley's Game." Dennis Hopper oozes quirky menace as an amoral American art dealer who entangles a terminally ill German everyman, played by Bruno Ganz, in a seedy criminal underworld as revenge for a personal slight-but 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, Wenders's 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
- Participant:
- Bruno Ganz, Dennis Hopper, Gérard Blain, Nicholas Ray
- Notes:
- Title from title frames
- Film
- In Process Record
- Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 1977
- Publisher Number:
- 12814111 Kanopy
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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