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The Ugly American: Directed by George Englund. With Marlon Brando, Eiji Okada, Sandra Church, Pat Hingle. An ambitious American scholar becomes the ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast Asian country where civil war is brewing.
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- Adventure, Drama, Thriller
- George Englund
- 1963-08-01
Based on influential 1958 American political novel, "The Ugly American" (1963) is a realistic film, a political drama/thriller featuring Marlon Brando as a new American diplomat in a Vietnam-like Southeast Asian nation that is painfully struggling between capitalist & communist factions.
American ambassador Harrison MacWhite (Marlon Brando) travels to a Southeast Asian country on a peacekeeping mission. Torn between rival factions, the turbulent nation is on the brink of civil...
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- Marlon Brando
- George Englund
- Drama, Adventure
Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 80% of critics have given the film a positive review, with a rating average of 6.1/10. [ 10 ] Of twenty-three reviews examined by historian Jon Cowans, fourteen were positive, five negative, and four neutral or mixed.
Reviews. Dec 31, 1962 11:00pm PT. The Ugly American. Some of the ambiguities, hypocrisies and perplexities of cold war politics are observed, dramatized and, to a degree, analyzed in The...
Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Marlene Matouk Tampa Bay Times. For those who enjoyed the book, this movie will be a big disappointment. For those who didn't read the book, well,...
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An intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the hands of conservatives to become ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast Asian country where civil war threatens a tense peace.
