Madame Butterfly (1932)

12/30/1932Drama1h 26m
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Overview

Pinkerton marries Cho-Cho San in Japan, whilst on shore leave. When he leaves, she keeps his Japanese home as he left it. He returns three years later, having married again in America, and tells Cho-Cho that their affair is over. She has had a child in his absence, who is sent to her family, before she kills herself.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Sylvia Sidney

    Cho-Cho San

  2. Cast 1

    Cary Grant

    Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton

  3. Cast 1

    Charles Ruggles

    Lieutenant Barton

  4. Cast 1

    Irving Pichel

    Yamadori

  5. Cast 1

    Helen Jerome Eddy

    Cho-Cho's Mother

  6. Cast 1

    Edmund Breese

    Cho-Cho's Grandfather

  7. Cast 1

    Louise Carter

    Suzuki

  8. Cast 1

    Judith Vosselli

    Madame Goro

  9. Sándor Kállay

    Goro

Don't go looking for much Puccini in this adaptation of the rather sad tale of "Madame Butterfly". Sylvia Sidney picks up the fan as the young geisha girl who encounters American sailor "Pinkerton" (Cary Grant) after the war. Rather cynically, his pal "Barton" (Charles Ruggles) informs him that he can pretty much have his way with the girl so long as he "marries" her beforehand and then she automatically becomes divorced afterwards when he gets on with his life Stateside. "Pinkerton" isn't quite so nasty, but when assured that "Cho-Cho San" will also just get on with things too, then a night o...