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The Ugly American

Name: The Ugly American
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Released: 1963-04-02
Duration: 115 min
Rating: 6.622

★ 6,6 /10 (37 Votes)

1963 EN 115 min

Overview

An intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the hands of conservatives to become ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast Asian country where civil war threatens a tense peace. Despite his knowledge, once he's there, MacWhite sees only a dichotomy between the U.S. and Communism. He can't accept that anti-American sentiment might be a longing for self-determination and nationalism. So, he breaks from his friend Deong, a local opposition leader, ignores a foreman's advice about slowing the building of a road, and tries to muscle ahead. What price must the country and his friends pay for him to get some sense?

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02/04/1963

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Genres

Thriller Drama

Status

Released

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Runtime

115 min

Marlon Brando

Ambassador Harrison Carter MacWhite

Eiji Okada

Deong

Sandra Church

Marion MacWhite

Pat Hingle

Homer Atkins

Arthur Hill

Grainger

Jocelyn Brando

Emma Atkins

Reiko Sato

Rachani, Deong's Wife

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Kukrit Pramoj

Prime Minister Kwen Sai

Judson Pratt

Joe Bing

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George Shibata

Munsang

Philip Ober

Ambassador Sears

Carl Benton Reid

Senator at Confirmation Hearing

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Judson Laire

Senator Brenner

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Yee Tak Yip

Sawad, Deong's Assistant

Frances Helm

James Yagi

John Daheim

Late Arrival at Meeting

Leon Lontoc

Lee Pang

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Bill Stout

Tyler, NBC Reporter

Stefan Schnabel

Andrei Krupitzyn

Simon Scott

Johnson

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Stuart Hall

Hearing Spectator (uncredited)

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***Why the Vietnam War happened*** Based on influential 1958 American political novel, “The Ugly American” (1963) is a realistic film, a political drama/thriller featuring Marlon Brando as a new American diplomat in a Vietnam-like Southeast Asian nation that is painfully struggling between capitalist & communist factions. Eiji Okada plays the country's revolutionary leader, a previous best-friend of MacWhite (Brando) who may be brainwashed by the communists. The ending cleverly shows how the average American is unconcerned with the political conflicts of distant nations. Produced and dir…

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