The Quiet American

An older British reporter vies against a young American for the affections of a Vietnamese beauty.
The Quiet American
Program data
Duration: 120
Production Year: 2002
MBC 2:
August 6, 2013 04:30 (KSA) ~ August 6, 2013 03:30 (CLT)
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.
When Fowler introduces Pyle to his beautiful young Vietnamese mistress Phuong the three become swept up in a tempestuous love triangle that leads to a series of startling revelations and finally - murder.
Nothing, and no one, is as it seems, in this adaptation of Graham Greene's classic and prophetic story of love, betrayal, murder and the origin of the American war in Vietnam.
Starring:
- Michael Caine
- Brendan Fraser
- Do ThiHai Yen
- Robert Stanton
- Holmes Osborne
- QuangHai
Directed by:Philip Noyce
Rating: R for images of violence and some language