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  1. 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.

    • December 1955
    • Novel
  2. 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.

    • (29K)
    • Drama, Romance, Thriller
    • Phillip Noyce
    • 2003-03-07
  3. 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.

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    • Paperback
  4. Language. English. Budget. $30 million. Box office. $27,674,124. 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 2002 version of The Quiet American ...

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  6. 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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    • Phillip Noyce
    • R
    • Michael Caine
  7. 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.

  8. Set in the early 1950s in Saigon, Vietnam, during the end of the First Indochina War, on one level The Quiet American is a love story about the triangle that develops between a British journalist in his fifties, a young American idealist and a Vietnamese girl, but on another level it is also about the political turmoil and growing American invol...

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