Madame Butterfly
Pinkerton marries Cho-Cho San in Japan, whilst on shore leave. When he leaves, she keeps his Japanese home as he left it. He returns three years later, having married again in America, and tells Cho-Cho that their affair is over. She has had a child in his absence, who is sent to her family, before she kills herself.
- 5.2
- 1932
- Released
- 1h 26m
Sylvia Sidney
Cho-Cho San
Cary Grant
Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton
Charles Ruggles
Lieutenant Barton
Irving Pichel
Yamadori
Helen Jerome Eddy
Cho-Cho's Mother
Edmund Breese
Cho-Cho's Grandfather
Louise Carter
Suzuki
Judith Vosselli
Madame Goro
Sándor Kállay
Goro
Sheila Terry
Adelaide Pinkerton
Dorothy Libaire
Peach Blossom
Berton Churchill
Mr. SharplessPhilip Horomato
Trouble
Charita
Released
en
- #suicide
- #geisha
- #based on play or musical
- #promise
- #interracial romance
- #cultural difference
- #black and white
- #pre-code
- #yellowface
Reviews
Don't go looking for much Puccini in this adaptation of the rather sad tale of "Madame Butterfly". Sylvia Sidney picks up the fan as the young geisha girl who encounters American sailor "Pinkerton" (Cary Grant) after the war. Rather cynically, his pal "Barton" (Charles Ruggles) informs him that he can pretty much have his way with the girl so long as he "marries" her beforehand and then she automa