Joe Butterfly (1957)
1h 30m
Running Time
May 29, 1957Release Date
Joe Butterfly (1957)
1h 30m
Running Time
May 29, 1957Release Date
Plot.
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 & Crew.
Burgess Meredith
Joe Butterfly
Audie Murphy
Private Joe Woodley
George Nader
Sergeant Ed Kennedy
Keenan Wynn
Henry Hathaway
Keiko Shima
Chieko
Fred Clark
Col. E.E. Fuller
Jesse Hibbs
Director
John Agar
Sgt. Dick Mason
Sy Gomberg
Writer
Charles McGraw
Sgt. Jim McNulty
Jack Sher
Writer
Shinpei Shimazaki
Boku
Marion Hargrove
Writer
Reiko Higa
False Tokyo Rose
Evan Wylie
Writer
Tatsuo Saitō
Sakayama
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Joe Butterfly is a 1957 American comedy film directed by Jesse Hibbs starring Audie Murphy, George Nader and Keenan Wynn, with Burgess Meredith in the title role as a Japanese man. The movie was action star Murphy's only outright comedy, and it suffered by comparison to the similar Teahouse of the August Moon, released seven months earlier. The film was based on an unproduced play.