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The Quiet American is a 1958 American drama romance thriller war film. It was the first film adaptation of Graham Greene's bestselling 1955 novel of the same name, and one of the first films to deal with the geo-politics of Indochina. It was written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and stars Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave, and ...
The Quiet American: Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. With Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave, Claude Dauphin, Giorgia Moll. A young naive American and a cynical older British diplomat disagree over politics in 1952 Vietnam and over a beautiful young native girl.
During the 1950s, Thomas Fowler (Michael Redgrave) is a British journalist stationed in Vietnam to cover the growing unrest. While in the country, he begins an extramarital affair with a beautiful...
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It was twice adapted for film, in 1958 and in 2002. Plot. Thomas Fowler is a British journalist in his fifties who has covered the French war in Vietnam for more than two years. He meets a young American idealist named Alden Pyle, a CIA agent working undercover.
When The Quiet American finally emerged, it was true to the spirit of Greene's novel, and did not flinch from showing American interventionism in a bad light. Phillip Noyce brings few...
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Overview. Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her attention. In retaliation, Fowler informs the communists that the American is selling arms to their enemy.
Oct 6, 2006 · An American economist gets caught between Communists and colonialists in Indochina.
