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The Quiet American

  • 19581958
  • TV-PGTV-PG
  • 2h
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Giorgia Moll in The Quiet American (1958)
A young naive American and a cynical older British diplomat disagree over politics in 1952 Vietnam and over a beautiful young native girl.
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A young naive American and a cynical older British diplomat disagree over politics in 1952 Vietnam and over a beautiful young native girl.A young naive American and a cynical older British diplomat disagree over politics in 1952 Vietnam and over a beautiful young native girl.A young naive American and a cynical older British diplomat disagree over politics in 1952 Vietnam and over a beautiful young native girl.
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    • Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    • Graham Greene(novel)
    • Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  • Stars
    • Audie Murphy
    • Michael Redgrave
    • Claude Dauphin
    • Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    • Graham Greene(novel)
    • Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  • Stars
    • Audie Murphy
    • Michael Redgrave
    • Claude Dauphin
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    • 28User reviews
    • 27Critic reviews
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    Audie Murphy and Michael Redgrave in The Quiet American (1958)
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    Audie Murphy and Michael Redgrave in The Quiet American (1958)
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    Audie Murphy
    Audie Murphy
    • The American
    Michael Redgrave
    Michael Redgrave
    • Thomas Fowler
    Claude Dauphin
    Claude Dauphin
    • Inspector Vigot
    Giorgia Moll
    Giorgia Moll
    • Phuong
    Bruce Cabot
    Bruce Cabot
    • Bill Granger
    Fred Sadoff
    Fred Sadoff
    • Dominguez
    Kerima
    Kerima
    • Phuong's Sister
    Richard Loo
    Richard Loo
    • Mr. Heng
    Peter Trent
    • Eliot Wilkins
    Georges Bréhat
    • French Colonel
    • (as Georges Brehat)
    Clinton Anderson
    Clinton Anderson
    • Joe Morton
    Yôko Tani
    Yôko Tani
    • Rendezvous Hostess
    Nguyen Long
    • Boy with Mask
    C. Long Cuong
    • Boy in Watchtower
    Tu An
    • Boy in Watchtower
    Vo Doan Chau
    • Cao-Dai Commandant
    • (uncredited)
    Le Van Le
    • Cao-Dai Pope's Deputy
    • (uncredited)
    Cho Cha Lung
    • Hotel Waiter
    • (uncredited)
      • Joseph L. Mankiewicz
      • Graham Greene(novel)
      • Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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    • Trivia
      In Europe, writer, producer, and director Joseph L. Mankiewicz was savagely attacked for his movie's infidelity to the source novel by Graham Greene, not least by Greene himself. The screenplay essentially turns the novel inside-out, so that the blundering "quiet American", whose extreme naiveté causes tragedy and his own death despite his having only the best of intentions, is transformed into a shrewd and heroic figure, far wiser and more honorable than his British rival. Mankiewicz later referred to the movie as "very bad" (although he also liked to point out that Jean-Luc Godard had called it the best movie of its year) and claimed that he had not been able to concentrate on the movie because of the mental collapse of his wife, Rose Stradner, who committed suicide soon after he had finished it.
    • Quotes

      Inspector Vigot: You know that it is a mistake to say that communism is appealing to the mentally advanced. I think it is only true when the mentally advanced are also emotionally retarded.

    • Connections
      Featured in Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene (2013)
    • Soundtracks
      La Cathédrale engloutie
      (uncredited)

      Composed by Claude Debussy

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    10/10
    A Greene Masterwork
    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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    • Release date
      • February 8, 1958 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
      • French
      • Vietnamese
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      • Saigon, Vietnam
    • Production company
      • Figaro
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    • 2 hours
      • Black and White

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