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Joe Butterfly: Directed by Jesse Hibbs. With Audie Murphy, George Nader, Keenan Wynn, Keiko Shima. American soldiers in occupied Tokyo get mixed up with a conniving black-marketeer.
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- Comedy
- Jesse Hibbs
- 1957-07-17
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. [3]
May 12, 2017 · The film follows the staff of the Army weekly magazine Yank, who are among the first American troops in Tokyo after Japan's surrender. They are given the...
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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.
- Jesse Hibbs, Phil Bowles
- Audie Murphy
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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.
A wily Japanese scrounger (Burgess Meredith) cuts red tape for Army newsmen (Audie Murphy, George Nader) in postwar Japan.
- Comedy
