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The Quiet American
Why this pick
Its humid colonial setting, restrained romantic rivalry, and growing moral unease echo the intimate emotional pressure and foreign-world atmosphere of The Painted Veil.
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MOVIE1934 1h 25m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
After her sister Olga marries and leaves home, Katrin Koerber, the daughter of an Austrian medical professor, fights loneliness and dreams of a more exciting life outside Austria. Consequently, when Dr. Walter Fane, a British bacteriologist, asks her to marry him and move to British Hong Kong, she agrees, even though she is not in love with him.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
George Brent
Jack Townsend
Soo Yong
Amah
Greta Garbo
Katrin Koerber Fane
Herbert Marshall
Herr Koerber
Warner Oland
General Yu
Jean Hersholt
Herr Koerber