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5. This is for the "Continental Hotel" - don't know whether it was the one we called Annapolis

Reply to MarineCombatEngineer (Reply #4)

Wed Nov 26, 2025, 01:57 PM

Nov 26

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Continental_Saigon
.... In popular culture
The hotel features prominently in Graham Greene's novel The Quiet American and in its two film adaptations in 1958 and 2002. It also features in Don Winslow's novel Satori.

The Continental also is a central locale in the 1992 film Indochine.

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