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8 February 1958 (USA) more
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In this adaptation of Graham Greene's prophetic novel about U.S. foreign policy failure in pre-war Indochina... more | add synopsis
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Audie Murphy ... The American
Michael Redgrave ... Thomas Fowler
Claude Dauphin ... Inspector Vigot
Giorgia Moll ... Phuong
Bruce Cabot ... Bill Granger
Fred Sadoff ... Dominguez
Kerima ... Phuong's Sister
Richard Loo ... Mr. Heng
Peter Trent ... Eliot Wilkins
Georges Bréhat ... French Colonel (as Georges Brehat)
Clinton Anderson ... Joe Morton
Yoko Tani ... Rendezvous Hostess
Nguyen Long ... Boy with Mask
C. Long Cuong ... Boy in Watchtower
Tu An ... Boy in Watchtower
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Runtime:
120 min | USA:131 min (TCM Print)
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1.66 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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The American: I'm from a country that's been in existence for less than two hundred years, in a very old world. That same fifty years ago, we were barely taken seriously as a nation, much less a great force for wisdom and decision. But suddenly now, a watch tick of history later, the world waits angrily for us to provide the answers it hasn't been able to find in fifty centuries. more
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A Greene Masterwork, 14 May 1999
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Author: yostwl from Maryland

Graham Greene did not have a comfortable vision of the world--or at least of the activities of human beings in the world. While very few movies do justice to books on which they are based, the Quiet American is a chilling forewarning of what the United States would be letting itself in for in the years to come. Murphy, always an appealing figure on the screen but not noted for truly great acting depth and breadth, is ideal for this understated role. A very well done thriller which addresses racism, colonialism, various "economic"isms, all the while focusing on the individual human impacts of high level decision-making. Are we just pawns, forced into just following orders, or do we have the responsibility to take action on the side of what we know to be right, in spite of the personal cost?

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