Never So Few (1959)
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.
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More Whit Bissell movies here!
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More Gina Lollobrigida movies here!
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.
Want to watch it? Click here to see it on ok.ru and thanks "Juhi Thaker" for posting!
More Whit Bissell movies here!
More Brian Donlevy movies here!
More Gina Lollobrigida movies here!