Madame Butterfly (1932)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Marion Gering

Writers:

David Belasco (play)
John Luther Long (play)

Release Date:

30 December 1932 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton is on shore-leave in Japan. He and his buddy Lieutenant Barton, out for a night on the town...

Plot Keywords:

Japan | Based On Play

Cast

Sylvia Sidney	...	Cho-Cho San
Cary Grant	...	Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton
Charles Ruggles	...	Lt. Barton
Irving Pichel	...	Yomadori
Helen Jerome Eddy	...	Cho-Cho's mother
Edmund Breese	...	Cho-Cho's grandfather
Louise Carter	...	Suzuki
Sándor Kállay	...	Goro
Judith Vosselli	...	Madame Goro
Sheila Terry	...	Mrs. Pinkerton
Dorothy Libaire	...	Peach Blossom
Berton Churchill	...	American Consul
Philip Horomato	...	Trouble
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Wallis Clark	...	Comm. Anderson

Runtime:

86 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivia:

One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Gamera vs. Guiron (#4.12)" (1991)

The 28 Year Old Cary Grant

Another run of the mill 1930's Hollywood film with the 28 year old Cary Grant acting alongside Sylvia Sidney. There was no genius in Grant at this stage simply because the scripts were lousy and he didn't have a good director like Hitchcock on board.