the quiet american be not one of the great greene book and come after the success of the thirty and forty and but it be a very entertaining read . joe mankiewicz make a great adaptation to the screen with superb actor . i will take michael redgrave and giorgia moll and claude dauphin over michael caine and do thi hai yen and rade serbedzija in the 2002 version any day and and a for audie murphy sure he no hamlet and but his dogged determination and easy southern charm impress me more than brendan fraser in the role of pyle and that dangerously quiet american . i be please by the way the story unfolded and the political theme be well work out and and the cao dai scene be very good . don not forget that in 1956 the city scape of saigon and the countryside still have not be modernize while you be see the real thing . the pairing of redgrave and dauphin be as entertaining a that of bogart and rain in casablanca represent be there any high praise .