Top cast:Arthur V. Johnson,Mary Pickford,Caroline Harris
Director:Robert Aldrich
Genre:Fantasy
Region:India
Year:2002
Storyline:Plot SynopsisMajor Gruver""s Japanese Mission - To Dissuade Airman Kelly""s Intercultural Romance:As the lengthy film opened during the Korean War in 1951, West-Point educated Air Force Major Lloyd "Ace" Gruver (Marlon Brando) from Richmond, Virginia, with a slurred southern accent, was being ordered o be transferred from the warfront in Korea (due to the excuse of "combat fatigue") and redeployed and stationed at a Japanese air base in Kobe...It""s just when you tell me that all these things are closing in on me, it""s like a nightmare."Sir Wilfrid""s first reaction was to refuse to defend Vole""s innocence and take his case: "I""m not taking your case.The film""s poster taglines emphasized:It delves without compromise into the hungers that lie deep within us all!A searching look into the innermost depths of a woman""s heart.Its screenplay was written by Jo Swerling, a Ukrainian-born Hollywood screenwriter known for previous hits includingThe Westerner (1940), the remakeBlood and Sand (1941),The Pride of the Yankees (1942), and Hitchcock""sLifeboat (1944)." The reverse of the word, woodpecker, referred o a literally red-headed and red-necked bird.Its second meaning was sexual - the foreskin of a penis (or prepuce) - literally the ""peckerhead."" Another related, similarly-defined term in the film was "Whicker bill."]In the plot, tenant sharecropping farmer""s high-school aged son Marvin Blake (Richard Barthelmess) was pressured to not forget his place in life and to pick cotton in the fields for rich Southern cotton plantation land-owner Lane Norwood (Berton Churchill).