"Who wrote the 1955 novel ""The Quiet American""?"
The Quiet American Miramax shelved the film for a year. The Quiet American The Quiet American is a 1955 novel by English author Graham Greene. Narrated in the first person by journalist Thomas Fowler, the novel depicts the breakdown of French colonialism in Vietnam and early American involvement in the Vietnam War. A subplot concerns a love triangle between Fowler, an American CIA agent named Alden Pyle, and Phuong, a young Vietnamese woman The novel implicitly questions the foundations of growing American involvement in Vietnam in the 1950s and is unique in its exploration of the subject topic through the links among its
The Quiet Gun movie from Regal Films who made B movies for 20th Century Fox. It was from the same team who had made "Stagecoach to Fury" (1956). During a screening of the film in Los Angeles, an armed robbers burgled the cinema and was shot by police trying to flee. The Quiet Gun The Quiet Gun is a 1957 American Western film directed by William F. Claxton and written by Eric Norden and Earle Lyon. The film stars Forrest Tucker, Mara Corday, Jim Davis, Kathleen Crowley, Lee Van Cleef and Hank Worden. It is based on the 1955 novel "Lawman" by Lauran