Not to be confused with 1950’s Una Hora de Vida, this Mexican lobby card is for Tokyo Joe with Humphrey Bogart. His shirt is unbuttoned and his gun is ready for action in this small but intriguing movie entry. Bogart could play the super tough guy like Sam Spade or the everyman–or average Joe–depending on the script. This movie was the first to be filmed in post-war Japan (ah, those wonderful TCM notes), and the second unit director, Arthur Black, had quite a time of it on location. Between a week’s rain delaying shooting and the army supplying a different “Bogart” every day, he had to make due as best he could. Sessue Hayakawa’s return to the screen had him as the menacing villain.
