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The Quiet American is a 1955 novel by English author Graham Greene. Narrated in the first person by journalist Thomas Fowler, the novel depicts the breakdown of French colonialism in Vietnam and early American involvement in the Vietnam War.
Mar 7, 2003 · The Quiet American: Directed by Phillip Noyce. With Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Thi Hai Yen, Rade Serbedzija. An old British reporter vies with a young U.S. doctor for the affections of a beautiful Vietnamese woman.
The Quiet American is a 2002 political drama film and the adaptation of Graham Greene's bestselling 1955 novel set in Vietnam, The Quiet American. It is directed by Phillip Noyce and stars Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, and Do Thi Hai Yen.
The Quiet American is the story of a British journalist covering the war in 1950s French Indochina and the annoying American who disrupts his complacent lifestyle. Sure, he’s in a war zone, but he has never had it better.
Nov 22, 2002 · Thoughtful and wonderfully acted, The Quiet American manages to capture the spirit of Green's novel. From the classic novel by Graham Greene comes a murder mystery centered on a love triangle...
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Feb 7, 2003 · Graham Greene's novel The Quiet American (1955) told the story of this triangle against the background of America's adventure in Vietnam in the early 1950s--when, he shows us, the CIA used pleasant, presentable agents like Pyle to pose as "aid workers" while arranging terrorist acts that would justify our intervention there.
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.
The Quiet American, published in 1955, is a novel by British author Graham Greene. It is set in 1950s Vietnam, amidst French colonial struggles and the emerging American involvement.
Thomas Fowler is a middle-aged British journalist living in Saigon and covering the conflict in Vietnam between the French colonial forces and the Viet Minh communists. Two years into his assignment he meets Alden Pyle, an American intelligence operative working undercover in the Economic Aid Mission.
Saigon, 1952, a beautiful, exotic, and mysterious city caught in the grips of the Vietnamese war of liberation from the French colonial powers. New arrival Alden Pyle, an idealistic American aid worker, befriends London Times correspondent Thomas Fowler.
