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Tokyo Joe (1949)
- 27 sec
- 1939
- Eddiesfedora77
Eight years before he became America's greatest father, Hugh Beaumont was not letting Humphrey Bogart give him the business in the 1949 movie Tokyo Joe.
- 2 min
- 2.3K
- Scott Hettrick
Tokyo Joe is a 1949 American film noir crime film directed by Stuart Heisler and starring Humphrey Bogart. This was Heisler's first of two features starring Bogart, the other was Chain Lightning that also completed in 1949 but was held up in release until 1950.
Synopsis:Humphrey Bogart plays Saloonkeeper Joe Barrett in post-war Tokyo. With an interesting cast including Alexander Knox and an outstanding performance b...
- 6 min
- 16.8K
- CSTONEUK
Tokyo Joe: Directed by Stuart Heisler. With Humphrey Bogart, Alexander Knox, Florence Marly, Sessue Hayakawa. An American returns to Tokyo try to pick up threads of his pre-WW2 life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities.
- (2.8K)
- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Stuart Heisler
- 1949-11
In the wake of Japan's surrender, American expatriate Joseph Barrett (Humphrey Bogart) hopes to revive the Tokyo club he ran before he left to fight in World War II.
- Drama
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Joe Barrett returns to Tokyo after World War II where he once owned a bar, Tokyo Joe's, and deserted his wife Trina. They have a seven-year-old daughter. Kimura forces Joe into piloting war criminals by revealing that during the war Trina made treasonous propaganda broadcasts.
