Joe Butterfly (1957)
The Uproarious Saga of Those Hilarious Heroes Who Took Tokyo in a Storm of Laughter with their Riotous Operation Kimono!
90 min
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?
- Release date
- May 29, 1957
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Audie Murphy as Private Joe Woodley
- George Nader as Sergeant Ed Kennedy
- Keenan Wynn as Henry Hathaway
- Keiko Shima as Chieko
- John Agar as Sergeant Dick Mason
- Charles McGraw as Sergeant Jim McNulty
- Fred Clark as Colonel E.E. Fuller
- Shinpei Shimazaki as Little Boy
- Reiko Higa as False Tokyo Rose
- Tatsuo Saitō as Father
Crew
- Jesse Hibbs · Director
- Sy Gomberg · Writer
- Jack Sher · Writer
- Marion Hargrove · Writer
- Evan Wylie · Writer
- Aaron Rosenberg · Producer
- Irving Glassberg · Cinematographer
- Milton Carruth · Editor