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None But the Brave
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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085393336028
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 StereoJapanese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 StereoEnglish (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: WARD012249D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Running Time: 106 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1965
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Editorial Review:
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 05/13/2008 Run time: 106 minutes Rating: Nr
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - 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. ... Read More
Rating: - 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.
Rating: - 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.
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Rating:  - 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!!!!
Rating:  - ýNone but the Braveý is an ANTI-WAR movie ý not a war movie!
>> `None but the Brave' is an ANTI-WAR movie - not a war movie! This film was the Vietnam-era equivalent of `All Quiet on the Western Front' - and an excellent anti-war movie at that. Yet so far, every review completely misses the deliberate, deeper meaning of this outstanding film. Additionally, everyone completely misses the context of the times that this movie was made under. Frank Sinatra - a well-known, active supporter of JFK, directed this movie - and as such this film speaks volumes for Sinatra's ... Read More
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