Geisha Girl

The plot to "Geisha Girl" seems much like one you'd see in an Abbott & Costello, Martin & Lewis or Three Stooges flick, though with the far less funny duo of handsome Steve Forrest and goofy Archer MacDonald. The pair are soldiers on leave from the Korean War and, like most soldiers on leave, head for R&R in occupied Japan. However, they don't want folks to know they are soldiers and decide to buy some civilian clothes. What they don't know is that some evil types have hidden some explosive pills in one of the jackets...and they spend much of the story trying to retrieve these explosive pills from the Americans.

So is this film any good? Well, it's not terrible! And, it gives you a nice look at post-war Japan. Overall, pleasant and undemanding...and a bit better than I expected.

By the way, if Archer MacDonald isn't familiar to you, it's because this striking looking actor committed suicide only two years after making this film. He was only 30 and supposedly was so despondent about his failed marriage that he took his life. Such a waste.