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Show , j&- I f llfcl Hill M jwv sfcfl " I 4 I " 1 '''Si; After a hilarious series of misadventures, misad-ventures, the soldier boys triumph, tri-umph, mainly because of the help given them by the wily, not too scrupulous but altogather charming charm-ing Japaneese sharpie whose nickname nick-name is Joe Butterfly. As the staff photographer of the magazine, Audie Murphy displays a new facet af his talent by giving a winning performance of a genial gen-ial irresponsible but thoroughly captivating youth who has an equal genius for getting into and , out of trouble. Nader is the hapless hap-less sargent of the magazine staff ! who has to impose some sort of authority over Audie and other capricious members of the crew, and he does an expert job of portraying por-traying an essentially serious fel- ; low coping with erratic situations. Keenan Wynn, who seems to have been specializing in unsympathetic unsym-pathetic characters lately, is again a disagreeable fellow in "Joe But- j terfly," and he does the job so well that the spectator howls with glee at his continual frustrations. Miss Keiko Shima, an authentic flower of the Japaneese stage and screen is a delight as the native miss who "Joe Butterfly" Will Spark Big Boom On Laugh Market ' captures Audie's fancy. ' Many people who see "Joe Butterfly" But-terfly" will derive most of their pleasure from the performance of Maredith in the title role. Somewhat Some-what reminiscent of his Sakini of "The Teahouse of the August Moon," which he played on the stage for twenty months, his "Joe" is a character that will keep you chuckling reminiscently long after you have seen the picture. Directed with a sure sense of its comic values by Jesse Hibbs, the picture also received expert production guidance from Aaron Rosenberg. The charming and amusing screenplay is the work of Sy Gomberg, Jack Sher and Marion Mar-ion Hargrove. The heartiest guffaws heard in a movie theatre in many a day will hearald the Tuesday opening of "Joe Butterfly," a Universal-International Universal-International comedy about an engaging group of G.I.'s in Japan which was filmed entirely in that country. Topping the cast of this Technicolor Techni-color and Cinemascope production are Audie Murphy and George Nader, and co-starred with them I are Keenan Wynn, Keiko Shima, John Agar, Charles McGraw, Fred Clark and Burgess Meredith. The story concerns the desperate desper-ate efforts of the staff of an army magazine to get out its first issue after the occupation of Japan.ef-forts Japan.ef-forts that seem doomed to failure when the correspondent of a powerful pow-erful American news magazine used all his influesce to commandeer comman-deer the only presses available. |