None But the Brave Digital Life VHS

None But the Brave
starring: Richard Bakalyan, Tony Bill, Hisao Dazai, Brad Dexter, Jimmy Griffin

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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780790734941
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 079073494X
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: April 28, 1998
Running Time: 106 minutes
Sales Rank: 29786
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: February 24, 1965

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Frank Sinatra had a strong movie career for years, but he only directed one film: None but the Brave, a 1965 anti-war picture that turns out to be much more interesting and compelling than its reputation would suggest. On a remote Pacific island, a plane carrying U.S. Marines crash-lands, setting up a tense stand-off with the overlooked Japanese contingent already there. The two sides mirror each other, and eventually a nervous truce takes place. There are many unexpected choices here, including Sinatra's casting of himself as merely part of the ensemble, a weary pharmacist's mate who--in the film's most riveting sequence--must perform an amputation. The movie's narrated by the Japanese commander (Tatsuya Mihashi), and the Japanese actually speak their own language (well, except for the narration) instead of accented Hollywood English. Sinatra's good in it, and so is TV star Clint Walker, a big he-man with a quite approach. (Tommy Sands, then Sinatra's son-in-law, gives a broad but amusing performance as a nerdy by-the-book officer.) The film bears the influence of Bridge on the River Kwai with a little Mister Roberts thrown in, but it has a bitterness about war that goes all the way through to the forceful final title, a reflection of Sinatra's liberal views at the time. Clint Eastwood got a lot of credit for making two films that showed WWII from the American and the Japanese sides, Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, but in a way Sinatra had already done it, and in one movie. It's not a major film, but an honorable effort, and it predates the rash of anti-war counterculture movies by a few years. --Robert Horton

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- Good Movie...Annoying Subtitles.
None But The Brave is a fun & entertaining movie, and i'm so happy it was finally released to DVD. But what's the deal with the subtitles? If you choose to turn them off, you can't see what the Japanese are saying, and my Japanese is pretty rusty to say the least. If you turn the subtitles on however, you can see what the Japanese are saying, but then are forced to read what the Americans are saying as well. It's basically an 'all-or-nothing' deal, and it's somewhat distracting to the movie itself. I own the VHS version of this movie, and there's only subtitles when the Japanese are speaking, which is the way it should be on DVD too. I suppose I can keep switching the subtitles off/on between the American and Japanese scenes? But why should I have to?

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- Sorry, I Don't Understand Japanese!
I'm not sure if it was shown this way in the theater, but how could you listen to so much Japanese talk with no subtitles? Horrible! Sure, you can turn on the DVD subtitles, but that works for English as well. Bummer! As far as being a war movie, pretty much lame. The GI's act as the enemey did in my review of Beach Red. Here you are with an unknown enemy around you, and these guys sit around and play cards and get haircuts! Four stars for the ending and the anti-war message.

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- None But the Brave
This is one of Sinatra's better vehicles. Some have criticized him as an actor but he proves himself to be more than capable in this movie. Sinatra was a multi-talented man, movies being his second vocation. The biggest problem with Sinatra, the actor, was he had a tendency to be lazy. He never liked to do more than two takes for any scene he was in. His claim was that a scene would loose its 'freshness' if more than two takes were done, that may be so but it led to some sloppiness.

None But the Brave would be the fifth & final movie he would receive a producer credit, it's also the only movie he directed. Sinatra portrays Maloney, a corpsman. His role isn't the overshadowing role one would think he would cast himself into, after all, he was the producer & director. The screen time of the Japanese actor, Tatsuya Mihashi, is the actual starring role. He's the narrator of the movie &, in many ... Read More

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- A unique perspective
Overblown, overacted, and sometimes cliché, this movie nonetheless tried something new. Show both sides in wartime. As a former soldier, some of the behaviors and actions of the Marines were incomprehensible, but the movie does get its point across in the final scene with the words; "No One Ever Wins". Give it a watch and for crying out loud, put it out on DVD!!!!

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