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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0027616921710
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 19, 2005
Running Time: 122 minutes
Sales Rank: 35282
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: February 08, 1958
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Product Description:
A love triangle brews amidst a growing political tempest in this 'brilliantly intellectual' (Los Angeles Times) film in which nothing is quite as it seems. Adapted from the acclaimed novel by Graham Greene Academy Award®-winning* writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's screenplay 'delivers dialogue that not only sparkles but bites deep with the irony of truth' (Citizen-News).In 1952 Saigon is caught between the corrupt colonial powers and the Communist uprising. An idealistic young American (Audie Murphy) champions a shadowy Third Force but cynical British journalist Thomas Fowler (Michael Redgrave) is concerned only with the American's interest in his mistress. When jealousy forces Fowler to take sides at last the personal and political consequences are devastating.System Requirements: Running Time 122 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: MYSTERY/SUSPENSE Rating: NR UPC: 027616921710 Manufacturer No: 1008133
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - More Film Noir Than Political Thriller
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Graham Greene's acclaimed novel, THE QUIET AMERICAN, was first filmed back in 1958 with screenplay and direction by multiple Oscar-winner Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
Although this black-and-white film, which was shot in Vietnam, follows the same basic storyline as the 2002 color remake, the tone of this earlier effort is considerably different, more film noirish than political ... Read More
Rating:  - JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ, OPUS 15
****1/2 1958. Co-written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, THE QUIET AMERICAN is an adaptation of Graham Greene's The Quiet American (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition). Is Audie Murphy a spy or an idealist ? Michael Redgrave doesn't hesitate much when the American starts to court his Vietnamese mistress. This excellent adaptation will leave you a bitter aftertaste in the mouth thanks to Michael Redgrave's superior performance as the cur Thomas Fowler. highly recommended.
Rating:  - A Convenient Interpretation
A decidedly Americentric portrayal of a novel that, in fact, portrays Americans in an extremely negative light. Graham Greene was, understandably, not amused by this deliberate misunderstanding. Taken just as a movie, I found The Quiet American intelligent but slow and poorly acted by everyone except Redgrave. He is masterful as he effects a cynical, hedonistic, above-it-all smugness perfectly. To have no opinion is, itself, an opinion. To refuse to side with the forces of good is morally equivalent ... Read More
Rating: - The Quiet American
I purchased this as a gift for my father-in-law for Father's Day and he loved it and is sharing it with others. There is no age bracket for a movie of this caliber.
Rating: - Very good, but with a Hollywood ending that ruins it!
The first two-thirds of this film is excellent. Then, Hollywood has to simplify and dummy down the end. Rent the 1950's version of this, and also read the book. Here's what made those two infinitely more fascinating...
1. Ambiguity! You are never sure if the American was working with the enemy (or who the enemy is, for that matter), or if our main British character wanted to believe he was, was duped like a pawn into believing he was, to get the American killed out of a sense of revenge. This new version ... Read More
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