The American (Audie Murphy): I'm from a country that's been in existence for less than two hundred years, in a very old world. That same fifty years ago, we were barely taken seriously as a nation, much less a great force for wisdom and decision. But suddenly now, a watch tick of history later, the world waits angrily for us to provide the answers it hasn't been able to find in fifty centuries.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Screenwriter
The Quiet American, 1958
Loosely based on The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Distributed by United Artists
Source: imdb.com