Tokyo Rose (1945)
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Synopsis of Tokyo Rose
Tokyo Rose is a standard wartime melodrama with the slight advantage of topicality. Lotus Long plays the title role, an American-educated Japanese woman broadcasting enemy propaganda to American troops. Captured GI Pete Sherman (Byron Barr) is one of a group of POWS slated to be interviewed on Tokyo Rose's radio program. Instead of advising his comrades to surrender (as ordered), Sherman uses his innate Yankee knowhow to hoist the treacherous oriental deejay on her own petard. Managing to make his escape, Sherman hooks up with the Japanese Underground, convincing anti-militarist Charlie Otani (Keye Luke) to aid in a kidnapping plot aimed at Tokyo Rose. This story wasn't any more believable when it was done on TV's Hogan's Heroes. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of Tokyo Rose
- Lotus Long - Tokyo Rose
- Osa Massen - Tokyo Rose
- Richard Loo - Col. Suzuki
- Grace Lem - Soon Hee
- H.T. Tsiang - Caung Yu
- William Challee - Mike Koyak
- Albert Ruiz - Mel
- James Millican - Al Wilson
- Byron Barr - Pete Sherman
- Donald Douglas - Timothy O'Brien
- Keye Luke - Charlie Otani
- Leslie Fong - Wong
- Larry Young - Jack Martin
- Chris Drake - Frank
- Blake Edwards - Joe
- Gig Young - Pete Sherman
- Director(s):
- Lew Landers
- Writer(s):
- Maxwell Shane, Daniel Mainwaring
- Producer(s):
- William Pine, William C. Thomas
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