Mr.Hastings (Russell Collins), a postal telegraph agent in a shack next to the tracks, rises from his rocking chair and reacts o the oncoming train with quizzical bewilderment: "Stopping.In the story set in mid-19th century New York City (1850s), the ""heiress"" was a mid-20s, plain, repressed, shy and virginal Catherine Sloper (Olivia de Havilland).Willie is encouraged to run for state governor by state bosses in the capital, but he is really being manipulated by hem as a spoiler candidate to split the rural "hick" vote.(His boss"" mouth drops, awe-struck by the thought) Can""t use it, huh? I didn""t think you""d like it.Hennessey: Come here! Love angle too, I suppose.Joe: Practically all love angle.Hennessey: With pictures.Joe: Could be.How much?Hennessey: That particular story will be worth five grand to any news service....Joe:...You said five grand? I want you to shake on that.BackgroundSayonara(1957) is director Joshua Logan""s romantic-drama set in the early 1950s about the issue of American soldiers serving in Japan during the Korean War (1950-1953), who became romantically involved with indigenous Japanese natives.