Talk:Tokyo File 212

Melvin Belli
"Belli had a brief flirtation with the film industry and thought he might make his fortune there. He invested $50,000 in a movie called Tokyo File 212 which had an able New York press agent named Eddie Jaffe and therefore got into a number of newspaper columns because of it. Cholly Knickerbocker said in 1951 that "Belli's first film, Tokyo File 212, has been making box-office records and Belli is so happy about the whole thing he plans to make six more." Danton Walker on the same day said, "Tokyo File 212 to be followed with others along the same line to be filmed in Iran, Iraq and Turkey." " The latter word may have been intended as a joke, since the film was an outrageous stinker and if it broke any box-office records at all, did so in the refund category. Belli has clung to his financial interest in the picture, however, and insists he will get it all back. "Why, after eleven o'clock at night, on television."" in Robert Wallace's 1955 book about Belli.--Skr15081997 (talk) 11:49, 10 May 2015 (UTC)