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Joe Butterfly (1957)

Joe Butterfly (1957)

Comedy

The Uproarious Saga of Those Hilarious Heroes Who Took Tokyo in a Storm of Laughter with their Riotous Operation Kimono!

Release Date: 1957, May 29
Directors: Jesse Hibbs
Countries: United States of America
Production: Universal International Pictures
Cast: Burgess Meredith, Keenan Wynn, Fred Clark, Charles McGraw, Harold Goodwin, Herbert Anderson, John Agar, Eddie Firestone, George Nader, Audie Murphy, Willard W. Willingham, Tatsuo Saitō

Overview:

The staff of "Yank" magazine are among the first American troops into Tokyo after the Japanese surrender. Their mission: produce an issue of the magazine...in three days. To accomplish the seeming impossible, they reluctantly enlist the aid of black marketeer and arch-conniver Joe Butterfly, who sets them up in a palatial private mansion, complete with lovely daughter -- strictly against regulations. How much trouble can our heroes talk their way out of?

Keywords:

japan army life