Joe Butterfly
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- Runtime
- 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?
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?
Cast
- Burgess Meredith
- Audie Murphy
- George Nader
- Keenan Wynn
- Keiko Shima
- Fred Clark
- John Agar
- Charles McGraw
- Shinpei Shimazaki
- Reiko Higa
- Tatsuo Saitō
- Chizu Shimazaki
- Herbert Anderson
- Eddie Firestone
- Frank Chase
- Harold Goodwin
- Willard W. Willingham
- Al Ricketts
Director
- Jesse Hibbs
Producers
- Aaron Rosenberg
