Saturday, July 11, 2020

No Place Like Movies at Home: None but the Brave

So far in this Frank Sinatra journey we have seen many different sides of him. We have seen the shy boy next door, steady married man, a baseball player and the drug addict. However, Mr. Sinatra does have several movies under his belt that are war films. No, not the solider on leave, or coming out of the service for good. I mean he plays a soldier in a war zone. However, he play another role in this film, this is his directorial debut as well, from 1965, None but the Brave.


A small group of Japanese solider left forgotten on an island has some unexpected visitors. They are a group of crippled American Marines that are trying to get home when their plane crashes on the island. It doesn't take long for the fighting to start. Both sides loose more men of the very few they both started with. Nothing can be done at the time because both sides have lost radio contact with their counterparts. However, peace comes for an unexpected reason, to save a life. One of the Japanese men was injured, before the Americans showed, and the wound in now infected. While spying on the Americans they learn that there was a Doctor on board the flight that crashed and he survived. In order to try and save one life in all of the bitterness of war, they broker a peace for the doctor to come and see him and hopefully save his life. Here is the problem, the doctor is not a doctor. He is actually a pharmacist, who has some basic first aid knowledge, that makes him look like a doctor. He goes to have a look anyways and says he can remove the leg. He does successfully. In return both sides work together to survive, that is until the American fix their radio and get in contract with a vessel to come to the rescue. Will they all make it off of the island or will there be more pointless bloodshed?

War films is that genre of movies that I really don't have a straight opinion on. Like every movie is I love and I will watch it again, or I hate it and it shall never experience it again. This is the first time that I have no opinion either way. I wasn't overly thrilled watching this. It had some great moments but nothing to really recommend to others on. I think that if you are a Frank Sinatra fan, you should watch it because it is his first time directing, but other than that. I don't really have much to say on it.    

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