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Three Stripes in the Sun (1955)
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Writers:
Albert Duffy (writer)E.J. Kahn Jr. (New Yorker Magazine article The Gentle Wolfhound)
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29 November 1955 (Japan) morePlot Keywords:
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Wartime sentiment, astonishingly based on a true account... moreCast
(Credited cast) | Aldo Ray | ... | MSgt. Hugh O'Reilly |
| Philip Carey | ... | Col. William Shepherd (as Phil Carey) |
| Dick York | ... | Cpl. Neeby Muhlendorf |
| Chuck Connors | ... | Idaho Johnson |
| Camille Janclaire | ... | Sister Genevieve |
| Heihachiro Okawa | ... | Father Yoshida (as Henry Okawa) |
| Tatsuo Saito | ... | Konoya |
| Mitsuko Kimura | ... | Yuko |
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In 1949 Occupied Japan, an American Army Sergeant who despises the locals ultimately finds a soft spot in his heart while working with the nuns and children at a bedraggled orphanage, soon falling in love with a Japanese translator. Although this story is based upon fact, with the real-life protagonist Sgt. Hugh O'Reilly acting as technical adviser, one hesitates to swallow such a big lump of sugar. The film has been designed as a heart-warmer yet, as bullet-chested, no-nonsense Aldo Ray plays O'Reilly, the character's complete transformation into an old softy is rather too good to be true. Ray, who got stuck in a revolving door of battle films during this period, isn't an animated actor on-screen, his personality mostly consisting of a stoic manliness; here, he strains to utilize his goofy laugh and dumb-mug smile to convince us he's just a big kid on the playground--one with love in his eyes. Ray's a decent actor, but this part would be a stretch for even the most accomplished performer. Buddy Dick York gets some second-banana laughs, Phil Carey is a by-the-books Colonel whose heart eventually thaws, while the sisters and little ones are constantly around to milk the audience for the utmost treacly effect. I didn't believe a second of it. ** from ****