The Quiet American

     

The Quiet American1958

Stars: Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave, Claude Dauphin, Giorgia Moll
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Rating: TV-PG
Runtime: 120 minutes

The Quiet American is a 1955 novel by English author Graham Greene. Narrated in the first person by journalist Thomas Fowler, the novel depicts the breakdown of French colonialism in Vietnam and early American involvement in the Vietnam War. A subp… more »


Thomas Fowler:
You'd have made a good priest, Vigot. What is there about you that would make it so easy to confess... if there were anything to confess?

Inspector Vigot:
[Keenly] You mix for yourself a drink, but you're not drinking it.

Thomas Fowler:
It might be unwise. There are no secrets of the confessional in your profession.

Inspector Vigot:
Secrecy is seldom important to a man who confesses. He has other motives.

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