An older British reporter vies against a young American for the affections of a Vietnamese beauty.

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