In The Quiet American, London Times reporter Thomas Fowler (Michael Caine) is enjoying all the pleasures life in Saigon can offer.

Caine may well have set himself up for another Oscar nomination for this re-make of the l958 screen version of the Graham Greene classic.

Michael Caine knows he's not the greatest actor the world has ever seen. He knows, too, that he has been in plenty of films which made turkeys look cultural ... and he views all this with a healthy disregard and a happy shrug.