None But the Brave
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| Warner Bros. | Release Date: February 24, 1965 |
Summary:
During WW2, a platoon of Marines crash-lands on a tiny Pacific island occupied by a small Japanese unit.
Genre(s):
Adventure, Drama, War
Runtime:
106 min
An unspectacular but solid, ensemble (anti-) war movie, considered moderately progressive in its day for the way it describes the war in the Pacific from both sides. [19 Jun 2010, p.26]
Seen through the eyes of the soldiers, it is a rare film that humanises the Japanese "enemy". [27 Aug 2016]
Sinatra displays great competence as an action director, and a sequence where the Americans attempt to capture a boat laboriously built by the Japanese is beautifully choreographed, ending with a memorable shot of both sides staring in silence as a hand-grenade destroys their only means of escape.
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Director Frank Sinatra (on screen, he's a medic) was probably going for Kurosawa-like profundity here. Unfortunately, the other actors include Clint Walker and Tommy Sands. [05 Apr 1991, p.3D]
Even with a glittering cast, this would have been a dull, hackneyed, overlong affair, but the contributions of such stalwart actors as Clint Walker and Tommy Sands insured that The Chairman of the Board's first shot in the director's chair would be his last. [17 Oct 1982, p.5]
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