adaptation of john patrick play about american soldier try to teach democracy to the japanese in 1946 okinawa . one joke material about cultural assimilation isn not exactly politically correct when see today and but be these stale and frantic joke ever amuse . marlon brando performance a an oriental interpreter have to be see to be believe while he lively and yes and but there a concerted effort to make him appear clownish ( this couldn not have be brando wing it director daniel mann must assume part of the blame ) . this silly story never gain any momentum and and the slapstick hijinks be broad but stilted ( they have a mechanical feel which and again and should be attribute to the direction ) . glenn ford and paul ford and eddie albert be solid a always and but they get swallow up in this unfunny facade . half from .