Country: USA
Year: 1957
Duration: 147'
The US Air Force major Lloyd Gruver (Brando) is transferred from Korea to a military base in Japan so he can marry his fiancée Eileen, the daughter of the general at the base. But Gruver is tired of their insincere relationship and he breaks up with Eileen. He sees the Japanese actress Hana-ogi in a theatrical production and falls in love with her. In the meantime, his flying companion Kelly has also married a Japanese woman but this brings him into conflict with the American military authorities, who don’t approve of mixed marriages. Hectored by a superior officer and punished for his relationship, Kelly ends up committing suicide with his wife, forcing Gruver to do everything he can to marry his beloved Hana-ogi. Perhaps one of the least-known but most intense performances by Brando, who initially oversaw the adaptation of the original novel by James A. Michener and suggested various solutions to Logan to underscore the movie’s anti-racial thrust.
Biography
film director
Joshua Logan
(Texarkana, USA, 1908 – New York, USA, 1988) was an American director, screenwriter, movie producer and playwright. After graduating from Princeton, he won the Pulitzer Prize for drama with the musical South Pacific, which he wrote with Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, and he directed his first Hollywood movie in the late 1930s. He later returned to directing in the mid-‘50s with the famous movies Picnic (1955), Bus Stop (1956), Sayonara (1957), and, at the end of his career, Paint Your Wagon (1969).
FILMOGRAFIA
I Met My Love Again (Ho ritrovato il mio amore, 1938), Picnic (id., 1955), Bus Stop (Fermata d’autobus, 1956), Sayonara (id., 1957), South Pacific (id., 1958), Tall Story (In punta di piedi, 1960), Fanny (id., 1961), Ensign Pulver (Una nave tutta matta, 1964), Camelot (id., 1967), Paint Your Wagon (La ballata della città senza nome, 1969).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Joshua Logan. STORY: from the novel by James Albert Michener. SCREENPLAY: Paul Osborn. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ellsworth Fredericks. EDITING: Philip William Anderson, Arthur P. Schmidt. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Ted Haworth, Robert Priestley. COSTUMES: Norma Koch. MUSIC: Franz Waxman. CAST: Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, Red Buttons, Miiko Taka, Ricardo Montalbán, Martha Scott, Miyoshi Umeki, James Garner. PRODUCTION: William Goetz per Warner Bros. Pictures.
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