Joe Butterfly Trailer

Joe Butterfly Trailer (1957)

"The Uproarious Saga of Those Hilarious Heroes Who Took Tokyo in a Storm of Laughter with their Riotous Operation Kimono!" 29 May 1957 Comedy 90 mins

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?

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Cast

Burgess Meredith

as Joe Butterfly

Audie Murphy

as Pvt. Joe Woodley

George Nader

as Sgt. Ed Kennedy

Keenan Wynn

as Harold Hathaway

Keiko Shima

as Chieko

Fred Clark

as Col. E.E. Fuller

John Agar

as Sgt. Dick Mason

Charles McGraw

as Sgt. Jim McNulty

Reiko Higa

as False Tokyo Rose

Tatsuo Saitō

as Sakayama

Herbert Anderson

as Maj. Ferguson

Eddie Firestone

as Sgt. Oscar Hulick

Frank Chase

as Yeo. Saul Bernheim

Harold Goodwin

as Col. Hopper

Crew

Irving Glassberg

Irving Glassberg Director of Photography

Jesse Hibbs

Director

Jack Ruge

Jack Ruge Theatre Play

Evan Wylie

Evan Wylie Theatre Play

International Releases Dates

Germany 01 March 1958

United States 29 May 1957

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