Saigon: Year of the Cat
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Saigon: Year of the Cat is a television drama first broadcast in 1983 by Thames Television
. It was directed by Stephen Frears
; the screenplay was by David Hare.
It stars Judi Dench
, Frederic Forrest
, E. G. Marshall
, Wallace Shawn
and Chic Murray.
in 1974, begins a relationship with American Bob Chesneau (Frederic Forrest
), and quickly senses that he works for the CIA. Chesneau realises that the fall of Vietnam to the North Vietnamese is for the very near future.
Thames Television
Thames Television was a licensee of the British ITV television network, covering London and parts of the surrounding counties on weekdays from 30 July 1968 until 31 December 1992....
. It was directed by Stephen Frears
Stephen Frears
Stephen Arthur Frears is an English film director.-Early life:Frears was born in Leicester, England to Ruth M., a social worker, and Dr Russell E. Frears, a general practitioner and accountant. He did not find out that his mother was Jewish until he was in his late 20s...
; the screenplay was by David Hare.
It stars Judi Dench
Judi Dench
Dame Judith Olivia "Judi" Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA is an English film, stage and television actress.Dench made her professional debut in 1957 with the Old Vic Company. Over the following few years she played in several of William Shakespeare's plays in such roles as Ophelia in Hamlet, Juliet in Romeo...
, Frederic Forrest
Frederic Forrest
-Life:Forrest was born in Waxahachie, Texas, the son of Virginia Allie and Frederic Fenimore Forrest, a furniture store owner. He is known for his roles as Chef in Apocalypse Now, When The Legends Die, It Lives Again, the neo-Nazi surplus store owner in Falling Down, Right to Kill? and for playing...
, E. G. Marshall
E. G. Marshall
E. G. Marshall was an American actor, best known for his television roles as the lawyer Lawrence Preston on The Defenders in the 1960s, and as neurosurgeon David Craig on The Bold Ones: The New Doctors in the 1970s...
, Wallace Shawn
Wallace Shawn
Wallace Michael Shawn , sometimes credited as Wally Shawn, is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, author, voice artist, and intellectual. His best-known film roles include Wally Shawn in My Dinner with Andre , Vizzini in The Princess Bride , and debate teacher Mr...
and Chic Murray.
Synopsis
Barbara Dean (Judy Dench), an assistant manager in a foreign bank in SaigonHo Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City , formerly named Saigon is the largest city in Vietnam...
in 1974, begins a relationship with American Bob Chesneau (Frederic Forrest
Frederic Forrest
-Life:Forrest was born in Waxahachie, Texas, the son of Virginia Allie and Frederic Fenimore Forrest, a furniture store owner. He is known for his roles as Chef in Apocalypse Now, When The Legends Die, It Lives Again, the neo-Nazi surplus store owner in Falling Down, Right to Kill? and for playing...
), and quickly senses that he works for the CIA. Chesneau realises that the fall of Vietnam to the North Vietnamese is for the very near future.