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The Quiet American

film by Mankiewicz [1958]

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discussed in biography

  • Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
    In Joseph L. Mankiewicz: Films of the 1950s

    The Quiet American (1958) was a bowdlerized version of Graham Greene’s novel about a mysterious American (Audie Murphy) in Saigon, Vietnam, who finds himself at odds with a cynical British reporter (Michael Redgrave). Suddenly, Last Summer

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role of Murphy

  • Murphy, Audie
    In Audie Murphy

    …Hell and Back (1955), and The Quiet American (1958). He died when his private plane crashed. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honours.

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