Saigon is a 1963 American film starring Grant Kerouac, George Robert, Melvin Carlyle, Anna Lewis, Julia Nguyen, Douglas Trinh, and George Takei. The film also featured a young Kim Jong in one of his first roles. Set in the 1930's during the American occupation of Saigon, the film was a spectacle modelled after 1939's Fall of the Romanovs and other Hollywood "foreign epics," focusing on the splendor of the Orient. The film revolves around a complicated love story between a married, Roman-Catholic American military officer (Kerouac) and the daughter (Nguyen) of a Vietnamese nobleman. The film featured themes of colonialism, Orientalism, racism, Catholicism and modernization, and had a run-time of nearly four hours, featuring an intermission.