The Quiet American Page #5
- TV-PG
- Year:
- 1958
- 120 min
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An American.
Is he wealthy?
That you'll have to ask him.
Is he married?
That, too, you will have to ask him.
When an American is married,
he looks married.
This is Phuong's sister, Miss Hei.
How do you do, Miss Hei?
Do you come from New York?
No, uh, Texas.
Why not New York?
No particular reason.
I just happen to come from Texas.
I have a picture book of New York.
The bridge of George Washington live there.
Is your father
a successful businessman?
I'm afraid not. He... He's a professor.
A teacher. But a man of importance?
To the few
who consider teaching important.
Is he coming here?
I would like to make his acquaintance.
Do you have another sister?
You know I have not. Why?
Because you're cross-examining this
young man like a hungry marriage broker.
Do you have any particular bride in mind?
I have only one sister.
Exactly.
She needs to be secure.
She deserves to be secure.
She is good and very, very loyal.
Well, I must be going back to my friends.
I would like to meet you again.
have dinner together,
when Mr. Fowler gets back from the north.
When are you going to the north?
Very soon. Dominguez thinks
I ought to take a look at the war.
Then you must have dinner
with me and my sister
when Mr. Fowler is away. Good night.
She certainly speaks English well.
We could finish to dance now, if you like.
If I like?
Well, uh,
dinner will be served at any instant.
It should be here by now.
When it will arrive, we will finish.
I might very well
have been there as a chaperone.
It was a role I didn't want to play.
To wear a smile and a look that said,
"Enjoy yourselves.
I like to watch you dance. "
Suddenly, I felt an uneasiness.
I wished I'd never heard the rumor
about the battle in the north.
I wished for Dominguez to tell me
and I didn't have to go.
But there I was,
about a week after our dinner
at the Rendezvous.
I wondered how long Phuong's sister
Oh, I'm sorry.
has made you awake.
I wasn't sleeping.
They will not attack tonight in any case.
It is too close to daylight.
their concentrations.
Concentrations, my eye.
Your eye, Monsieur Granger?
Commies are concentrated
exactly one to a tree,
knocking off your mortar teams
like sitting ducks.
Let them run their own war, Granger,
it's the French who are dying.
Too many French are dying
that don't have to die.
They're my friends. I can't be unconcerned
about friends who die unnecessary deaths.
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