In 1951 Graham Greene stayed for the first time, while writing "The Quiet American" and acting as a correspondent for Paris Match.
Maybe they will seek out Fraser in The Quiet American--his next movie, based on a novel by Graham Greene--in which he plays a British opium addict.
What makes "The Quiet American" so compelling this time around is the drama of two men bewitched, or besotted, by a beautiful woman (played with affecting simplicity by Do Thi Hai Yen).
Caine, a veteran of 100 screen roles in a 40-year career, is clearly proud of his work in The Quiet American because he believes he has made his real self invisible in the role.
When it began, the American ambassador to Israel told the prime minister, Ariel Sharon, that the destruction of Mr Arafat's headquarters was undermining the quiet that Washington seeks in the occupied territories ahead of any American strike on Iraq.
Having fought and then negotiated so hard and for so long to quiet the insurgency in Radhwaniya, American commanders were wary of the potential crisis.
That lecture, which triggered riots and cost lives in several parts of the world, won him quiet admirers in some new quarters, ranging from the American neoconservative right to a sprinkling of European intellectuals.
In its quiet way, this is the most subversive American movie in years.
The rulers are safely pro-American, and the populations can, more or less, be kept quiet.
There are quiet heroes among us who embody the power and promise of the American spirit ordinary men and women who have devoted themselves to uplifting the lives of others.
His best known Irish movie to date, though, is The Quiet Man, a 1952 Oscar-winning film shot in County Mayo about a retired Irish-American boxer, played by John Wayne, who returns to the Irish town he was born in.
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