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"A look at the making of the first American movie filmed in Vietnam, years before the American military involvement.
At long last, the full and amazing story about the first American movie foray into Vietnam, with its devastating consequences on all the involved....
This book includes:
*the first interview in 40 years with co-star Giorgia Moll;
*the first major revelations from Audie's best friend, Willard Willingham;
*the first published comments from the diary of Oscar winning Film Editor, William Hornbeck;
*new revelations about the CIA in Vietnam;
*insights from the movie's Figaro Production team;
*the truth about Audie's near death in Vietnam;
*the Vietnamese perspective from Associate Producer, Vinh Noan;
*the feud between director Joseph L. Mankiewicz and author Graham Greene;
*never before seen photos from behind the scenes!
Contributing to a Thinker'S Damn with interviews:
GIORGIA MOLL, the leading lady, in her first extensive interview about the movie;
MIKE MINDLIN, Figaro executive vice president, also in Vietnam with the film crew;
ROBBY LANTZ, Figaro vice president and Mankiewicz's close friend;
WILLARD WILLINGHAM, Audie's best friend, giving his first interview in 50 years;
FRANCE NUYEN, who competed for the lead role;
ELAINE SCHREYECK, Continuity Editor on the film and close associate of Mankiewicz;
VINH NOAN, Associate Vice President on the picture and Technical advisor for Figaro Productions;
WILLIAM HORNBECK, the Film Editor whose never published diaries provide new insights;
DAVID McCLURE, Audie's close friend whose unpublished manuscript adds to the story;
BEN COOPER, Audie's frequent co-star;
MARC LAWRENCE, noted character actor;
ERIC PLESKOW, Oscar-winning producer;
TERRY MURPHY, Audie's son;
JAMES KIRKWOOD, Pulitzer Prize winning author;
and JAN MERLIN, writer and actor, co-star with Audie on several occasions.
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From the Author:
Writing the story of this important and neglected film, I had an opportunity to relive the experience. About sixty people went to Vietnam to make The Quiet American in January of 1957. After talking to so many of the participants, all made me feel like I was one of their troupe. In the final analysis, the most amazing and distressing fact to emerge from the movie and its story is that so many highly talented, Oscar-winning people, at the height of their creative talents, came together--and the result was utterly disappointing. It is a story that parallels the later American involvement in Vietnam. That too proved to be a debacle.
About the Author:
A veteran of the Vietnam War, Dr. William Russo served with the U.S.Army and later worked as a free-lance writer for several Hollywood tabloids. Nowadays, he leads a life of quiet scholarship as a professor at Curry College near Boston, Massachusetts. Based on anecdotes of those who knew Audie Murphy, his new book is a homage to the great war hero who happened to be a movie star. Other books by Russo include ANOTHER SUNNY DAY, about the Lincoln Assassination, and MAL TEMPO, about the Eternal Wanderer. He calls those books "mythographies" or examples of how truth has become legend.
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- PublisherD T T N
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 1892183153
- ISBN 13 9781892183156
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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