Joe Butterfly

Joe Butterfly

90 mins | Comedy | May 29, 1957

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?

Joe Butterfly

90 mins | Comedy | May 29, 1957

Joe Butterfly
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?
IMDb rating 5.9
Producers Universal International Pictures
Original title Joe Butterfly
Directors Jesse Hibbs
Writers Evan Wylie, Jack Ruge, Marion Hargrove, Sy Gomberg, Jack Sher

Cast

Burgess Meredith

as Joe Butterfly

Audie Murphy

as Pvt. Joe Woodley

George Nader

as Sgt. Ed Kennedy

Keenan Wynn

as Harold Hathaway

Keiko Shima

as Chieko

Fred Clark

as Col. E.E. Fuller

John Agar

as Sgt. Dick Mason

Charles McGraw

as Sgt. Jim McNulty

Reiko Higa

as False Tokyo Rose

Tatsuo Saitō

as Sakayama

Chizu Shimazaki

as Mother

Herbert Anderson

as Maj. Ferguson

Eddie Firestone

as Sgt. Oscar Hulick

Frank Chase

as Yeo. Saul Bernheim

Harold Goodwin

as Col. Hopper

Al Ricketts

as Reporter (uncredited)