None But the Brave

Warner Bros. | Release Date: February 24, 1965

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49	METASCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews

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Staff (Not Credited)

Frank Sinatra, who also stars with Clint Walker and produces, makes his directorial bow and is responsible for some good effects in maintaining a suspenseful pace. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

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. Read full review

The IndependentStaff (Not Credited)

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]

The GuardianPaul Howlett

The anti-war sentiment is overplayed, but it's a good gritty war drama for all that. [08 Oct 2005, p.53]

The TelegraphStaff (Not Credited)

Seen through the eyes of the soldiers, it is a rare film that humanises the Japanese "enemy". [27 Aug 2016]

Screen RantPadraig Cotter

Sadly, None But The Brave suffers from numerous cliches with the characters, including Clint Walker (The Dirty Dozen) as Captain Bourke, mostly being archetypes instead of fleshed-out human beings. The message is also painfully on the nose, but at least it's earnest. Read full review

Mike Clark

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]

Bosley Crowther

IF the threat of Frank Sinatra as a film director is judged by his first try on "None But the Brave," it is clear that there need be no apprehension among the members of the Screen Directors Guild. Read full review

Terry Kelleher

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]