It's a shame that they made Tom Neal take a "detour" to the tanning salon before being made up to appear to be Japanese in this overly dramatic war drama that has not stood the test of time very well. He looks like he's suffering from a sun stroke rather than the attempt to look Japanese as he infiltrates a Japanese prisoner of war camp to help release an officer being held there. He gains the suspicions of captured head nurse Barbara Hale, forced to continue her work, but on the side of the Japanese. She's constantly ogled by Japanese officer Richard Loo, a stereotypical hot tempered enemy who plays charming but fights nasty.
Well made technically but ridiculously acted and written, this leads me with the question of why Neal felt like he had to act like he had cotton balls in his mouth. There is absolutely no believable aspect of his performance, and in no way does his mixing of a Jimmy Stewart imitation with Charlie Chan work other than to get the audience to laugh at him.
Hale is sincere as the tough nurse unafraid to stand up to the evil Loo who happens to have a movie of Neal when he was a football player and was convieniently his college roommate. Absurd on every level, this is not Hollywood patriotism at its finest. Poor Keye Luke, as a Korean man also hiding his nationality, has to be outlandishly subservient as a lowly camp slave like worker who is assisting Neal. And that title? They didn't seem to be anywhere near Tokyo.
Well made technically but ridiculously acted and written, this leads me with the question of why Neal felt like he had to act like he had cotton balls in his mouth. There is absolutely no believable aspect of his performance, and in no way does his mixing of a Jimmy Stewart imitation with Charlie Chan work other than to get the audience to laugh at him.
Hale is sincere as the tough nurse unafraid to stand up to the evil Loo who happens to have a movie of Neal when he was a football player and was convieniently his college roommate. Absurd on every level, this is not Hollywood patriotism at its finest. Poor Keye Luke, as a Korean man also hiding his nationality, has to be outlandishly subservient as a lowly camp slave like worker who is assisting Neal. And that title? They didn't seem to be anywhere near Tokyo.