Joe Butterfly
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| Joe Butterfly | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Jesse Hibbs |
| Produced by | Aaron Rosenberg |
| Written by | screenplay by Sy Gomberg, Jack Sher & Marion Hargrove play by Evan Wylie & Jack Ruge |
| Starring | Audie Murphy Burgess Meredith |
| Music by | Joseph Gershenson (supervision) |
| Cinematography | Irving Glassberg |
| Editing by | Milton Carruth |
| Distributed by | Universal-International Pictures |
| Release date(s) | July 1957 |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Joe Butterfly (1957) is a comedy film directed by Jesse Hibbs and starring Audie Murphy, George Nader, Keenan Wynn, and Burgess Meredith in the title role. The movie follows the staff of Yank magazine, who are among the first American troops in Tokyo after Japan's surrender. They are given the difficult task of producing an issue of the magazine in three days. Short on ideas and having to meet the deadline, they enter Japan's black market and come across con artist Joe Butterfly. Butterfly shows them the high life letting them live in a mansion complete with beautiful girls.
The film is Audie Murphy's only outright comedy, which suffered by comparisons to Teahouse of the August Moon.[1]
[edit] Cast
- Audie Murphy .... Private John Woodley
- George Nader .... Sergeant Ed Kennedy
- Keenan Wynn .... Henry Hathaway
- Keiko Shima .... Chieko
- Fred Clark .... Colonel E. E. Fuller
- John Agar .... Sergeant Dick Mason
- Charles McGraw .... Sergeant Jim McNulty
- Shinpei Shimazaki .... Little boy
- Reiko Higa .... False Tokyo Rose
- Tatsuo Saito .... Father
- Chizu Shimazaki .... Mother
- Herbert Anderson .... Major Ferguson
- Eddie Firestone .... Sergeant Oscar Hulick
- Frank Chase .... Chief Yeoman Saul Bernheim
- Harold Goodwin .... Colonel Hopper
- Willard Willingham .... Soldier
- Burgess Meredith .... Joe Butterfly
[edit] References
- ^ Gossett, Sue, The Films and Career of Audie Murphy, Empire Publishing, 1996, p. 82.
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