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During WW2, the American OSS mounts covert operations with the native Kachin against the Japanese army in the jungles of Burma.During WW2, the American OSS mounts covert operations with the native Kachin against the Japanese army in the jungles of Burma.During WW2, the American OSS mounts covert operations with the native Kachin against the Japanese army in the jungles of Burma.
Henry Amargo
- Scout
- (uncredited)
Rayford Barnes
- Soldier in Helicopter
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaSteve McQueen's role was originally going to be played by Sammy Davis Jr.. A feud had broken out between Davis and Frank Sinatra after Davis had claimed in a radio interview that he was a greater singer than Sinatra. Sinatra demanded he be dropped from the cast, and McQueen got the part. McQueen was mainly noted at the time for the television series Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958) and the horror movie The Blob (1958). Never So Few (1959) marked his introduction to working with director John Sturges, who went on to cast McQueen in his breakout role the following year, as second lead in The Magnificent Seven (1960), and later as the motorcycle-jumping lead in the classic The Great Escape (1963).
- GoofsAt the beginning of this WWII film, supplies are parachuted to the troops. On several of the boxes, USAF was stenciled on the boxes. The United States Air Force was not named until 1947 and the stencil should have read USAAF (United States Army Air Force).
- Quotes
Capt. Tom Reynolds: You know, the movies have got it all wrong, a cigarette tastes lousy when you're wounded.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Wogan: Episode #9.61 (1989)
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It doesn't know what it wants to be
The opening credits of Never So Few promise to show an excellent movie. With a theme from Hugo Friedhofer, and a cast of Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Paul Henried, Peter Lawford, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Brian Donlevy, Dean Jones, and Philip Ahn, this WW2 battlefront drama has to be good, doesn't it? Unfortunately not. Despite the intriguing setting of a few American soldiers fighting off an ambush of Chinese troops in Burma, it was one unpleasant surprise after another.
If you can get past Frank Sinatra's Robin Hood style goatee and hat, and if you can get past Paul Henried's relegation to a tired, old man, and if you can get past Gina Lollobrigida's fickle attentions, and if you can get past Millard Kaufman's cheesy dialogue, then you'd better be prepared for a war movie where the main soldiers take a vacation in a posh hotel. I'm not kidding.
This movie didn't really know what it wanted to be, since so many of the scenes are disjointed and all the subplots don't tie in with each other. Is this a war movie, a love triangle with silly one-liners, a drama about disobeying orders, or a moralistic tale of a cynic who has to learn his lesson? If you want to put your bid in, rent it, but I'm voting for option E: none of the above.
If you can get past Frank Sinatra's Robin Hood style goatee and hat, and if you can get past Paul Henried's relegation to a tired, old man, and if you can get past Gina Lollobrigida's fickle attentions, and if you can get past Millard Kaufman's cheesy dialogue, then you'd better be prepared for a war movie where the main soldiers take a vacation in a posh hotel. I'm not kidding.
This movie didn't really know what it wanted to be, since so many of the scenes are disjointed and all the subplots don't tie in with each other. Is this a war movie, a love triangle with silly one-liners, a drama about disobeying orders, or a moralistic tale of a cynic who has to learn his lesson? If you want to put your bid in, rent it, but I'm voting for option E: none of the above.
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- Budget
- $3,480,000 (estimated)
- Runtime2 hours 5 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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