The Quiet American Page #4
- TV-PG
- Year:
- 1958
- 120 min
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Very good dancers.
They speak French and a little English.
Uh, thank you very much,
but I've come in to have dinner
with my friends...
You will require partner.
It is embarrassing to dance
when there are three at a table.
One is always neglected.
I don't mind, really.
Actually, we've got a lot to talk about.
And two gentlemen
can speak much more freely
when the lady has another lady to talk to.
I'd rather not, if you don't mind.
Well, obviously, she does mind.
What's she saying?
I haven't a clue. Probably the same subject.
- Phuong.
- No, no. Just keep her out of this.
Phuong, get him out of this.
No, no, she mustn't get involved.
How did I get into this?
Why don't we leave? I don't want
Miss Phuong mixed up in a thing like this.
Phuong, can't you stop
the Chinese delegate?
I'm sure she's repeating herself.
I don't know what she's saying.
I speak Mandarin, she speak Canto.
It is most serious, sir.
There's a war, you know.
Business has not been very good.
The soldiers will not come
to a place like this.
These ladies are not for soldiers.
Here, please.
What was the magic formula?
We buy one extra dinner,
They, how you say,
throw the dice who has the credit.
- Okay?
-(CHUCKLES) Okay.
Miss Phuong, I want to apologize.
Apologize?
We had no right to involve you
with girls like that.
They are my good friends.
I have go to school with many.
when I first met Phuong two years ago,
she worked here.
As one of those?
Why do you keep saying "one of those"?
They're perfectly respectable
dining and dancing partners.
Not, in the words of the hostess,
not for soldiers.
But that's no way to...
I mean, what's their future?
In time, some of them
form a more permanent association
of one kind or the other.
And the rest?
Well, when they're no longer wanted here,
the age of retirement is rather young,
I suppose a military career is indicated.
It is a matter, after all,
of somehow to continue to exist.
Would you like to ask her now the difference
between a way of life and staying alive?
Will you dance with me?
Shall I order now for the three,
that is, four of us?
Perhaps it was because
they were gone so quickly
and I was so quickly alone,
but suddenly I saw myself
as perhaps they saw me.
A man of middle-age,
understandably concerned
more with the menu than the music.
And he held her properly, not too close.
The way you're supposed to hold
another man's girl,
according to the rules.
Mr. Fowler.
Please, don't get up. May I sit down?
I didn't know you were here.
I am dining with friends.
Who is the man dancing with my sister?
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