The Quiet American

Monsoon streets of Saigon glisten under neon. A weary correspondent watches his translator’s shadow lengthen across the wall as an American bureaucrat’s polished shoes click past. He gives the names of the wrong men to the wrong hands.

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Phillip Noyce directed The Quiet American in 2002. See Phillip Noyce's full filmography, where to start with Phillip Noyce, or where to go after you've seen everything by Phillip Noyce.

The Quiet American was released in 2002 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 101 minutes.