Stunning adaptation by Wim Wenders of Patricia Highsmith's Ripley's Game. Dennis Hopper is the amoral murderer who decides to involve a neighbour in his plans, persuading him through fraud and trickery that he has an incurable disease and therefore nothing to loose and, in terms of security for his family, everything to gain by murdering an unknown victim.
The American Friend is a Film programme that first aired in 1977 and has been classified a 15 certificate.
