Stopover Tokyo
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| Directed by | Richard L. Breen |
| Produced by | Walter Reisch |
| Written by | Richard L. Breen Walter Reisch |
| Based on | novel by John P. Marquand |
| Starring |
Robert Wagner Joan Collins Edmond O'Brien Ken Scott |
| Music by | Paul Sawtell |
| Cinematography | Charles G. Clarke |
| Edited by | Marjorie Fowler |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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100 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,055,000 |
| Box office | $1,350,000 (US rentals) |
Stopover Tokyo is a 1957 American espionage drama directed by Richard L. Breen and starring Robert Wagner, Joan Collins, Edmond O'Brien and Ken Scott. Filmed in Japan in CinemaScope, the film is set in Tokyo and follows a US counterintelligence agent working to foil a communist assassination plot.
The film is based very loosely on the final Mr. Moto novel by John P. Marquand. The biggest change is that Mr. Moto is entirely cut from the film.
It was the sole feature film directed by Breen, an Academy Award-winning screenwriter.
US Intelligence Agent Mark Fannon (Robert Wagner) is sent to Tokyo on a routine courier mission but soon uncovers communist George Underwood’s (Edmond O'Brien) plot to assassinate the American High Commissioner (Larry Keating).
While there he meets Welsh receptionist (Joan Collins), in whom fellow agent Tony Barrett (Ken Scott) has a romantic interest. This causes animosity between the two.
An attempt is made on Mark's life in a steam room and his local contact, Nobika, is assassinated. Lt. Afumi of the Tokyo police department escorts Tina and Mark to the scene of Nobika's death and shows them a note he found in Nobika's pocket.
Mark and Tina are detained by police. Mark phones Tony in Formosa to inquire about the name of the village in which Nobika lived. Mark goes there and tries to find classified information concealed in magazines. He meets Nobika's daughter, Koko.
In the 1950s Marquand had not written a Moto novel in fifteen years. He received an offer to write one from Stuart Rose, the editor of the Saturday Evening Post, who offered Marquand $5,000 to travel to Japan and an advance of $75,000.
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