--- title: 'Joe Butterfly (1957)' type: 'film' director: 'Jesse Hibbs' released: '1957-01-01' runtime_minutes: 90 genres: - 'Comedy' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/joe-butterfly-1957' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050564/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Joe Butterfly (1957) 1957 · 90 min · Comedy · United States ## Synopsis Joe Butterfly is a 1957 American comedy film directed by Jesse Hibbs starring Audie Murphy, George Nader and Keenan Wynn, with Burgess Meredith in the title role as a Japanese man. The movie was action star Murphy's only outright comedy, and it suffered by comparison to the similar Teahouse of the August Moon, released seven months earlier. The film was based on an unproduced play. ## Credits - **Director:** [Jesse Hibbs](https://cinepixo.com/people/jesse-hibbs) - **Screenplay:** [Sy Gomberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/sy-gomberg) - **Original Music Composer:** [Henry Mancini](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-mancini) - **Producer:** [Aaron Rosenberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/aaron-rosenberg) - **Director of Photography:** [Irving Glassberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/irving-glassberg) ## Cast - [Herbert Anderson](https://cinepixo.com/people/herbert-anderson) - [Charles McGraw](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-mcgraw) - [Tatsuo Saitō](https://cinepixo.com/people/tatsuo-saito) - [George Nader](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-nader) - [Harold Goodwin](https://cinepixo.com/people/harold-goodwin) - [John Agar](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-agar) - [Keenan Wynn](https://cinepixo.com/people/keenan-wynn) - [Burgess Meredith](https://cinepixo.com/people/burgess-meredith) - [Audie Murphy](https://cinepixo.com/people/audie-murphy) - [Fred Clark](https://cinepixo.com/people/fred-clark) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/joe-butterfly-1957 Film facts: Wikidata (Q2490597); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.