3 Movies Starring Patricia Owens

Sayonara

Sayonara

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1957-12-20

Languages:

English, Japanese

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

147 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (4036 Reviews)

Director:

Joshua Logan

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Paul Osborn (screen play)

James A. Michener (based on the novel by)

Fullplot:

Major Lloyd Gruver, a Korean War flying ace reassigned to Japan, staunchly supports the military's opposition to marriages between American troops and Japanese women. But that's before Gruver experiences a love that challenges his own deeply set prejudices... and plunges him into conflict with the U.S. Air Force and Japan's own cultural taboos.

The Fly

The Fly

Basic Info:

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (13987 Reviews)

Director:

Kurt Neumann

Genres:

HorrorSci-Fi

Cast:

Writer:

James Clavell (screenplay)

George Langelaan (based on a story by)

Fullplot:

After her husband Andre Delambre is crushed to death in a mechanical press, his wife recounts to his brother Francois Delambre and police Inspector Charas the events of the previous few months. They were very much in love and with their little boy, a very happy family. Andre was experimenting with teleportation - transporting objects from one point to another by breaking the object down to the atomic level and then reassembling it in a receiver a distance away. The system had some glitches - it seemed to work with inanimate object but his cat disappeared when he tried teleporting it. He thinks he's solved all of the problems with his invention and decides to try and teleport himself. When a fly enters the teleportation device with him, disaster strikes.

Hell to Eternity

Hell to Eternity

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1960-08-01

Languages:

English, Japanese

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

131 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (650 Reviews)

Director:

Phil Karlson

Cast:

Writer:

Ted Sherdeman (screenplay)

Walter Roeber Schmidt (screenplay)

Gil Doud (story)

Fullplot:

True life story of Guy Gabaldon, a Los Angeles Hispanic boy raised in the 1930s by a Japanese-American foster family. Later, during the war, as his foster parents are interned at a camp for Japanese Americans, Gabaldon's ability to speak Japanese helps him become a lone-operating Marine hero. During the bloody capture of the island of Saipan, he convinces 800 Japanese to surrender after their general commits suicide.

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