The Quiet American

Streaming video - 2002

In this adaptation of Graham Greene's prophetic novel set at the beginning of the United States' disastrous entanglement in Southeast Asia, idealism, love and betrayal lead to murder for THE QUIET AMERICAN.American Alden Pyle (Brandon Fraser--Crash) arrives in Saigon in the fall of 1952, the decisive moment in the struggle by the Vietnamese to free themselves from the French yoke. Eager to succeed in his mission to help the Vietnamese people through his mission of economic development and to thoroughly understand the political background, Pyle befriends experienced London Times newspaper correspondent Thomas Fowler (Sir Michael Caine--The Prestige). But Pyle is soon attracted to Fowler's young Vietnamese lover, Phuong (Hai Ye...n)--a woman as beautiful, exotic and mysterious as the city of Saigon itself. Now, these three become trapped in a triangle that will lead to a series of revelations, betrayals . . . and finally to death. more