PLOT SUMMARY: In this adaptation of Graham Greene's prophetic novel about U.S. foreign policy failure in pre-war Indochina, Audie Murphy plays an innocent Young American opposite the older, cynical Brit Michael Redgrave. They play out their widely different views on the prospects stuggle for the hearts and minds of the Vietnamese people in their competition over a young woman. Murphy wants to reform her and make her a typical middle class American housewife; Redgrave accepts her inability to formulate or retain a political ideal and while promising her no real future, he objects to Murphy's attempts to change her. It's not clear whether Murphy is just what he appears - a bungling Yankee do-gooder - or a deliberate agent of U.S. covert operations, but he ends up an expendable pawn in the end (Written by Rita Richardson). ABOUT THE DVD: This is a Netherlands release (Region 2 PAL format same as in the UK - so will play on all standard DVD players in Britian). The only subitiles available are Dutch (optional on/off - but no English subtitles). The audio is the original English, and the disc also has the original film trailer and scene selection available.