![]() The earlier version of the book, made in 1958 by Joseph L. ![]() Philip Noyce's superb adaptation of Graham Greene's novel, is his best film since Newsfront. Pyle becomes Fowler's rival for Phuong but more than that – Pyle seems involved in an American government push to establish a third force in Vietnam – by any means, including violence. Fowler's Vietnamese mistress, Phuong, Do Thi Hai Yen, is young enough to be his daughter, and the only cloud on his horizon is the fact that his paper may recall him home – Vietnam isn't very newsworthy, despite the conflict between the French colonial rulers and the Communist Viet Minh in the North.Īden Pyle, Brendan Fraser, is a newcomer to Saigon, a quiet American, who works for a medical aid mission, or so he says. Saigon, 1952, and Thomas Fowler, Michael Caine, correspondent for The Times, is living the good life far from his wife in London. ![]()
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