

You'll cry for happy, happy, happy when four U.S. sailors take over a geisha house...geisha girls and all !
03/03/1961
Overview
Army photographers on leave in Japan take over a geisha house.
William Goetz Productions

IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054772
Wikipedia: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5190422
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Review by: CinemaSerf
Written by: CinemaSerf on 2025-08-31T07:00:58.308Z
Just after the end of WWII, a team of American naval photographers lodge in a Japanese geisha house. Led by Glenn Ford ("Andy") they have some light-hearted adventures as, aided by Donald O'Connor's "Price", the sailors learn a little of the culture of their hostesses and more about their tradition (i.e. they are not hookers). Simultaneously, they must try to avoid their bosses jumping to any inaccurate conclusions - even if that means pretending that they are really running an orphanage! It's a bit of a one joke film, this; O'Connor really doesn't look like he wants to be there at all and though it does have flashes of humour, I just felt they were too few and far between in this colourful and friendly, but otherwise quite sluggish, drama.