Joe Butterfly

Joe Butterfly
Directed byJesse Hibbs
Written bySy Gomberg
Jack Sher
Marion Hargrove
Based onplay by Evan Wylie and Jack Ruge
Produced byAaron Rosenberg
StarringAudie Murphy
Burgess Meredith
George Nader
CinematographyIrving Glassberg
Edited byMilton Carruth
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release dates
  • May 29, 1957 (1957-05-29) (New York City)
  • June 12, 1957 (1957-06-12) (Los Angeles)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1.3 million (US rentals)[1]

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.[2] 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] The film was based on an unproduced play.[4]

Plot

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 difficult task of producing an issue of the magazine in three days. Short on ideas and having to meet the deadline, they enter Japan's black market and come across con artist Joe Butterfly. Butterfly shows them the high life, letting them live in a mansion complete with beautiful girls.

Cast

Production

Filming started July 1056. The movie was shot partly in Hong Kong and Japan as well as aboard the USS Los Angeles.[5]

At one stage the film was not going to be shown in Japan.[6]

According to co-writer Sy Gomberg, Audie Murphy was extremely uncomfortable playing comedy. However, the movie was an enormous hit in Japan, in part because of the Japanese people's admiration for Murphy, and partly because of its sympathetic depiction of the Japanese.[7] Following the film, Murphy brought home a 14-year-old Japanese girl who stayed with the Murphys and helped raise their children while she attended school in America.[8]

The original choice for the title character was meant to be David Wayne who had appeared as Sakini in the stage production of Teahouse of the August Moon. When he was unavailable the role was taken by Burgess Meredith who also played Sakini on stage.[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Top Grosses of 1957", Variety, 8 January 1958: 30
  2. ^ Joe Butterfly at Audie Murphy Memorial Site
  3. ^ Gossett, Sue, The Films and Career of Audie Murphy, Empire Publishing, 1996, p. 82.
  4. ^ Erickson, Hal Military Comedy Films: A Critical Survey and Filmography of Hollywood Releases Since 1918 McFarland, 30 Jul. 2012 p. 176
  5. ^ "USS LA CA-135 Information & History".
  6. ^ "Universal not to show 'Joe Butterfly'". Variety. 27 February 1957. p. 5.
  7. ^ Don Graham, No Name on the Bullet: The Biography of Audie Murphy, Penguin, 1989 p 266-267
  8. ^ "QUIET HOME LIFE FOR STAR". The Australian Women's Weekly. National Library of Australia. 22 May 1957. p. 43. Retrieved 11 July 2012.
  9. ^ Erickson, Hal Military Comedy Films: A Critical Survey and Filmography of Hollywood Releases Since 1918 McFarland, 30 Jul. 2012 p. 176

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