Review of Tokyo Joe (1949) by The S — 23 Aug 2010

Incredibly tiresome snoozefest has Bogart star as a former Colonel who returns to Japan after the war to reclaim his bar and discovers the wife he thought was dead is alive and remarried. He decides to try and win her back despite the fact they have absolutely no chemistry together and she has given him a very annoying young daughter. Tokyo Joe gets involved with Japanese bad guys and war criminals when they threaten to blackmail his ex.

This misfire was produced by Bogart's own company and was one of the first US films to be produced in postwar Japan. But only Bogart's double in a trenchcoat and hat walks the streets of Tokyo as Bogie stays behind at the Columbia lot. You notice Bogart looks pretty cool in the pictire in his flight jacket, but this is another movie where he wears a bow tie, which to me is always the telltale sign of a bad Bogart movie.