The Quiet American (DVD) Reviews

Newest Review: ... lots of foreign language… mostly French and Vietnamese. I’m not sure if the DVD had subtitles so we would know what they were ... more
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The Quiet American [DVD] Release Date: 2011 - 05 - 02, Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Last Update 18.05.2013 15:40
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The Quiet American [DVD] [2002] An impressive film from director Philip Noyce, The Quiet American ... Last Update 18.05.2013 16:11
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The Quiet American [DVD] Release Date: 2008 - 09 - 01, Rating: Parental Guidance Last Update 18.05.2013 15:40
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The Quiet American [DVD] Release Date: 2008 - 09 - 01, Rating: Parental Guidance Last Update 18.05.2013 16:11
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The Quiet American [Blu-ray]
United Kingdom released, Blu - Ray/Region B DVD: LANGUAGES: Engli ... Last Update 18.05.2013 15:40
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The Quiet American [Blu-ray]
United Kingdom released, Blu - Ray/Region B DVD: LANGUAGES: Engli ... Last Update 18.05.2013 16:11
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The Quiet American [DVD]
Release Date: 2011 - 05 - 02, Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Last Update 18.05.2013 16:11
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£ 4.73
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Graham Greene The Quiet American
Edition: Unabridged, Audio CD, Blackstone Audiobooks,U.S. Last Update 18.05.2013 16:11
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FOREIGN INTRIGUE/THE QUIET AMERICAN
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Customer The Quiet American (DVD) Reviews (2)

by - written on 06/11/04, updated on 16/03/05 (Very useful, 244 readings)
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It’s great getting the house to yourself – watching whatever you like. I found this film and although it normally isn’t what I would watch I really did get engrossed in it and though it was not a film that you were meant to ‘enjoy’ or laugh at, it was certainly one that gave a piece of history and some of the things that might have happened then. The film is called ‘The Quiet American’ and begins with the death of the ‘Quiet American’. Michael Caines’ character is almost telling a story when it begins of Vietnam. People can’t remember what they went there to escape from and the gunshots become so familiar that they would think they were only fireworks. As you ... Read the complete review

by - written on 10/12/02, updated on 10/12/02 (Very useful, 268 readings)
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The Quiet American opens on a sultry night in 1952 with twinkling lights, faraway explosions and a body floating face down in the water. Called in by the ambivalent French colonial police, Thomas Fowler, The Times's man in Saigon, identifies the corpse as his friend Alden Pyle, a "quiet American." Time shifts abruptly back to their first meeting. A table in front of the Continental Hotel, the ageing Fowler (Michael Caine) all complacent routine and casual detachment as a sedentary foreign correspondent, the bespectacled Pyle (Brendan Fraser in his best role since Gods and Monsters) at once eager, earnest, well mannered and yet ever so vaguely ... Read the complete review



