A director’s (Yves Montand) wife (Shirley MacLaine) poses as a geisha to win the lead in his Japanese production of “Madame Butterfly.”

An Eskimo who has had little contact with white men goes to a trading post where he accidentally kills a missionary and finds himself being pursued by the police.

Cynical British journalist Fowler (Michael Redgrave) falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman, but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official (Audie Murphy) also begins vying for the girl’s…