Appointment in Tokyo

1945 film by Jack Hively

Appointment in Tokyo

Directed by| Jack Hively
Screenplay by| Capt. Jack Handley
Capt. Jesse Lasky Jr.
Produced by| Office of War Information
Music by| Sol Kaplan

Release date

* 1945 (1945)

Running time

| 56 minutes
Country| United States
Language| English
The full film

Appointment in Tokyo is a 1945 documentary produced by the Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps, with the cooperation of the Army Air Forces and the United States Navy, and released by Warner Bros. for the War Activities Committee shortly after the surrender of Japan. It mainly follows General Douglas MacArthur and his men from their exile from the Philippines in early 1942, through the signing of the instrument of surrender on USS Missouri on September 1, 1945.[1]

The film is notable for its discussion of the problems MacArthur faced in Australia after the conquest of the Philippines, the American military's "hit 'em where they ain't" strategy through the Solomons and Papua New Guinea, and especially the footage from the reconquest of the Philippines, including of Battle of Leyte, the Battle of Manila, and the rescue of American and Filipino POWs from Japanese prison camps.

The New York Times reviewer Bosley Crowther felt that the action footage is of the "highest caliber," and the battle in Manila's streets is recounted in shots that are as vivid as any others in war photography. But Crowther continued that "to be quite frank about it, the cinematic structure of this film is inadequate to the vital subject and far inferior to that of previous war reports. Nor should the film, be regarded as a full review of the Pacific war." He objected that this material is "strangely grandiose with a 'melodramatic flavor.'" "Questionable, too," he went on, "from the point of straight reporting," is the "elaborate emphasis placed upon the personality of Gen. Douglas MacArthur," represented in no less than twenty-six shots.[2]

Appointment in Tokyo was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.[3]

## References

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1. ^ IMdb
2. ^ Bosley Crowther, New York Times (December 8, 1945)
3. ^ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.

## External links

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* Appointment in Tokyo is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
* Appointment in Tokyo at IMDb
* Appointment in Tokyo at the TCM Movie Database
* Appointment in Tokyo at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films

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Douglas MacArthur

Career|

* Service summary
* Escape from the Philippines
* Wake Island Conference
* Relief

Family|

* Louise Cromwell Brooks (first wife)
* Jean MacArthur (second wife)
* Arthur MacArthur IV (son)
* Isabel Rosario Cooper (mistress)
* Arthur MacArthur Jr. (father)
* Arthur MacArthur Sr. (grandfather)
* Arthur MacArthur III (brother)
* Douglas MacArthur II (nephew)

Public image|

* MacArthur Memorial
* MacArthur Landing Memorial National Park
* MacArthur Park
* Appointment in Tokyo (1945 documentary)
* MacArthur (1977 film)
* American Caesar (biography)
* Inchon (1981 film)
* MacArthur (1999 television documentary)
* Emperor (2012 film)
* Operation Chromite (2016 film)
* Namesakes

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Films directed by Jack Hively

* They Made Her a Spy (1939)
* Panama Lady (1939)
* The Spellbinder (1939)
* Three Sons (1939)
* Two Thoroughbreds (1939)
* The Saint's Double Trouble (1940)
* The Saint Takes Over (1940)
* Anne of Windy Poplars (1940)
* Laddie (1940)
* The Saint in Palm Springs (1941)
* They Met in Argentina (1941)
* Father Takes a Wife (1941)
* Four Jacks and a Jill (1942)
* Street of Chance (1942)
* Appointment in Tokyo (1945)
* Are You with It? (1948)
* Starbird and Sweet William (1973)

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