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...Ugly American. Marlon Brando arrives in mythical South Sarkhan (or possibly South Viet Nam) to take over the embassy, and walks smack into a revolution triggered by his old wartime buddy, a native named Deong. As an ambassador, Brando looks like something out of an old Grace Moore movie, but he seems cut out for the job: his Sarkhanese is better than his English...
...Dragon Lady. And hardly even a plot. U.S. Ambassador Marlon Brando-please do not laugh; this is a serious, Eastman Color picture-arrives at his post in South Sarkhan (read South Viet Nam) and hustles off to see an old friend, a fellow he knew in the resistance who has now become a leading neutralist...
...must be one. With Washington's approval the ambassador launches a political offensive which backfires. Deong, driven to revolt, makes common cause with the Communists and overwhelms the rightist regime supported by the U.S. But on the eve of victory, Deong is assassinated by his Communist allies. Only Marlon Brando now stands between Southeast Asia and Mao's hordes...
...upper lip produces merely a promising smear. He sports an expensive cutaway, but the more he tries to be elegant the more he looks like a stevedore at his daughter's wedding. Through the stuffed shirt peeps the T shirt, and at his most ambassadorial moments Marlon is unmistakably a man who longs to scratch. The customers will probably feel the same. It's the natural reaction to a lousy picture...
...world première in Bangkok, The Ugly American seemed to misfire, but Star Marlon Brando, 39, scored a clean hit. Off-screen he suavely discussed Buddhism with Thailand's King Bhumibol and told beautiful Queen Sirikit, "I have heard many wonderful things about you, but they do not compare with what you really are." Good-Will Ambassador Brando was "genuinely overwhelmed by the gentle Thai people. Smiles are pretty hard to come by on Hollywood and Vine." But when a little old lady chewing betel nut asked what he did for a living, Marlon went right back...