The Quiet American (film)
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| The Quiet American | |
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 The movie cover for The Quiet American. |
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| Directed by | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| Produced by | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| Written by | Graham Greene Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| Starring | Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave |
| Music by | Mario Nascimbene |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
| Release date(s) | February 8, 1958 |
| Running time | 120 min. |
| Language | English |
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The Quiet American was the first film adaptation of Graham Greene's bestselling novel, released in 1958. The film was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave, and Giorgia Moll, was critically well-received, though not considered a box office success.
The film was written by Mankiewicz, with uncredited input from CIA officer Edward Lansdale, who was often said to be the actual inspiration for the American character Pyle, played by Murphy. The film departed from Greene's premise at the end, sanitizing Pyle's moral culpability, and portraying the Communists as actually responsible for the terrorist acts that, in the novel, were provocations by anti-Communists. The film was also dedicated to Ngo Dinh Diem, the U.S.-backed president of South Vietnam who took office shortly after the novel's publication. In a Hollywood still recovering from the blacklist of American communists, Greene was furious that his anti-American message was excised, and disavowed the film as "propaganda".
[edit] External links
- The Quiet American (1958) at the Internet Movie Database
- The Quiet American (1958) at Rotten Tomatoes
[edit] See also
The Quiet American - Novel which the movie is based on.
The Quiet American (2002 film) - 2002 film adaptation.
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