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Based on the novel by Graham Greene, this story of love and war is set in Saigon, 1952. Thomas Fowler, a journalist for the Times enjoys his life in Vietnam living with a beautiful local woman called Phuong. Fowler's peace is shattered with the arrival of Alden Pyle, a doctor who also falls in love with Phuong...
...Superbly controlled, passionate....Caine makes his towering performance look casual...
...Caine gives the kind of seemingly effortless performance it needs an entire career to prepare for....Caine's performance is intricate without seeming to be, a nuanced marvel of the actor's craft...
...Fowler may be the richest character of Mr. Caine's screen career....This great English actor gives a performance of astonishing understatement whose tone wavers delicately between irony and sadness...
...This is intelligent grown-up entertainment on both a political and a humanistic level...
...An elegant film, elegantly shot by Chris Doyle....Noyce restores and sharpens the political outlines of the period...
...There are compelling performances....Caine brings a touching sense of vulnerability...
...THE QUIET AMERICAN is a towering achievement with a soul-baring performance by Michael Caine....Caine has never been better...