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The Ugly American is a 1963 American adventure film directed by George Englund, written by Stewart Stern, and starring Marlon Brando, Sandra Church, Eiji Okada, Pat Hingle, Judson Pratt, Reiko Sato, and Arthur Hill. It is based on the 1958 novel The Ugly American by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer.
The Ugly American is a 1958 political novel by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer that depicts the failures of the U.S. diplomatic corps in Southeast Asia. The book caused a sensation in diplomatic circles and had major political implications. The Peace Corps was established during the Kennedy administration partly as a result of the book.
The Ugly American, a 1963 film starring Marlon Brando, based on the 1958 novel; Ugly American (pejorative), a term used to refer to perceptions of arrogant behavior by Americans abroad; Ugly Americans (band), an American rock band; The Ugly American, a 2002 album by Marc Eitzel; Ugly Americans, a 2004 book by Ben Mezrich; Ugly Americans, a 2010 ...
Eiji Okada (岡田 英次, Okada Eiji, 13 June 1920 – 14 September 1995) was a Japanese film actor from Chōshi, Chiba.Okada served in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II and was a miner and traveling salesman before becoming an actor.
[18] [38] [39] Zellweger remarked that "John is so often the best thing about the movies he's in" and critic Roger Ebert praised the "pathetic sincere naivete" that Reilly brought to the role. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] Martin Scorsese 's Gangs of New York featured Reilly as corrupt 19th-century constable "Happy Jack" Mulraney, while Stephen Daldry 's drama ...
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film two out of four stars, saying that Heigl and Butler were "pleasant" but "the movie does them in." He commented on the restaurant scene that also was a red-band clip on YouTube, [14] saying that "Heigl makes a real effort" but that Meg Ryan's scene in When Harry Met Sally...
With an empathetic eye and cross-cultural cast led by Matt Damon and Camille Cottin, 'Stillwater' director Tom McCarthy tried to upend expectations for his dramatic thriller.
In December 1959, Newsweek referred to "poorly oriented" American study-abroad students in Europe as "the 'ugly' ones," and in June 1960, the mass-circulation Parade magazine ran an article about tourism titled "Don't Be an Ugly American," written by Frances Knight, director of the U.S. Passport Office. [16]