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Audie Murphy, Bruce Cabot, Claude Dauphin

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 Grah...( read more  read more... )am 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.

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Unrated, 122 min.

Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Release Date: February 8, 1958

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DVD Release Date: April 19, 2005

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  • bort16
    December 23, 2006
    bort16
    How to turn a critical book into jingoistic propaganda. This film is a disgrace to Graham Greene's novel; its no suprise to hear that he despised this film adaptation.
  • malacaynomuerto
    January 27, 2009
    malacaynomuerto
    Batallas pasionales se desencadenan durante las guerras una película muy correcta visualmente se ve plácidamente
  • MECreviews
    March 18, 2008
    MECreviews
    I didn't like this film.
  • brookiepooh04
    January 22, 2008
    brookiepooh04
    I want to see this movie
  • verynicebloke
    August 26, 2006
    verynicebloke
    great piece of storytelling with a none to sublte nod to towards current american foreign policy

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