TOKYO ROSE - 1946
Quickly paced wartime spy thriller set in Japan. A group of American p.o.w.'s are rounded up from several camps and taken to Tokyo. Once there, they are cleaned up, given new clothes and plenty of food. It seems that the prisoners are to be paraded in front of the neutral press corp during a broadcast of "TOKYO ROSE".
Richard Loo, in a role he played many times, is the Japanese Major in charge. However, just as the broadcast starts, an American bombing raid drops several bombs on the radio station. One of the prisoners, Byron Barr, escapes after exchanging clothes with a neutral reporter who had been killed in the bombing.
One of the other neutrals take him to the Japanese underground. Barr and the head of the underground, Keye Luke, hatch a plan to kidnap "TOKYO ROSE" and send her back to the U.S. by submarine. Yes! It is as silly as it sounds! It does however move along at a good pace and fits the bill as a hour long time-waster.
This low rent wartime spy drama was made by the "Dollar Bills", William Thomas and William Pine. The two Bills were known to be tight with a buck as they churned out low-budget fare for the bottom of the double feature. They were so good at this that they ended up in charge of the b-film unit at Paramount studios.
Look close and you can catch future PINK PANTHER director, Blake Edwards, in a small role.
Quickly paced wartime spy thriller set in Japan. A group of American p.o.w.'s are rounded up from several camps and taken to Tokyo. Once there, they are cleaned up, given new clothes and plenty of food. It seems that the prisoners are to be paraded in front of the neutral press corp during a broadcast of "TOKYO ROSE".
Richard Loo, in a role he played many times, is the Japanese Major in charge. However, just as the broadcast starts, an American bombing raid drops several bombs on the radio station. One of the prisoners, Byron Barr, escapes after exchanging clothes with a neutral reporter who had been killed in the bombing.
One of the other neutrals take him to the Japanese underground. Barr and the head of the underground, Keye Luke, hatch a plan to kidnap "TOKYO ROSE" and send her back to the U.S. by submarine. Yes! It is as silly as it sounds! It does however move along at a good pace and fits the bill as a hour long time-waster.
This low rent wartime spy drama was made by the "Dollar Bills", William Thomas and William Pine. The two Bills were known to be tight with a buck as they churned out low-budget fare for the bottom of the double feature. They were so good at this that they ended up in charge of the b-film unit at Paramount studios.
Look close and you can catch future PINK PANTHER director, Blake Edwards, in a small role.