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Screen: 'Never Then Few':Sinatra Starred With Gina Lollobrigida
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Screen: 'Never And then Few':Sinatra Starred With Gina Lollobrigida
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IT looks every bit though Frank Sinatra has been tapped to succeed Errol Flynn equally the almost fantastically romantic representation of the warrior brood on the screen.Do you remember the soldier he gave us two years ago in "Kings Go Forth"? He virtually chased the Nazis out of French republic from a bar stool in Dainty. And, last year, in "Some Came Running," he played a veteran home from the war with just about as much romantic chirapsia of his breast as his slim physique could have.At present, as a Burmese jungle fighter in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Never So Few," a wide-screen and wide-eyed color picture that came to the Music Hall yesterday, he not only knocks the daylights out of the tricky and elusive Japanese, but he likewise charms the "tiptop contumely" of the American Army and Gina Lollobrigida, too.How he accomplishes these triumphs in a pic that runs only ii hours is a miracle of pic condensation that does homage to Mr. Sinatra's new estate. No need for patient establishment of a likely personality with him. He's a hard-bitten, crisp, commanding, wasp-tongued and booze-guzzling cadet from the give-and-take "Get!"Allow the Japanese hit him in the jungle. He hits them back twice every bit difficult, so hops a aeroplane for Calcutta and a round of the fanciest bars. Let a depression-gowned Miss Lollobrigida swim into his ken, languishing warm and big-headed on a perfidious Paul Henreid's arm. In no time Mr. Sinatra has her put very neatly in her place, which is, as ane might imagine, straight beneath his thumb."I kissed y'all and you kissed me dorsum," he tells her, as she prettily struggles from his embrace. "I got the message."In that location'due south no demand to echo it. The audience gets information technology, too.And so, three or iv reels later, when he is blisteringly chosen to task for extending a raid upon a Japanese air strip with a further raid on some treacherous Chinese, he casually bathes his feet in brandy while telling an Army full general what he tin do. What he does is applaud Mr. Sinatra for being a hero beyond compare.In that location is no fashion to mensurate this picture with a yardstick of pure intelligence. It is a romantic fabrication by which intelligence is just repelled. The state of war scenes are wild and lurid, the dilly-dallying in the Calcutta confined and palatial hangouts of the wealthy is make-believe from an Oriental dream. Although based on a good book by Tom Chamales, the content of Millard Kaufman's script has the unsubstantiality of Hollywood hashish. And John Sturges has directed it for kicks.Those who will get them are the youngsters who can be lightly carried away by the juvenile brashness of Mr. Sinatra, by the swashbuckling antics of his pals, played near beyond comprehension by Richard Johnson. Peter Lawford and Steve McQueen, and by the flashy flamboyance of the fighting and the loving that are done in the aforementioned mood of violent bravura.More sober people will only sit there appalled.The Music Hall's stage bear witness features Wilm??? Curley and Michael Maule, Don Tannen, the Gimma Brothers, the Eight Notes, the Corps de Ballet, the Rockettes and the theatre'due south symphony orchestra.
The CastNEVER SO FEW??? adapted by Millard Kaufman from the novel by Tom T. Chamales; directed past John Sturges; produced past Edmund Gra???nger and presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. At the Radio City Music Hall. Running time: 123 minutes.Capt. Tom C. Reynolds . . . . . Frank SinatraCar???a Vesari . . . . . Gina Lo???llobrigidaCapt. Grey Trav???s . . . . . Peter LawfordBi???ll Ringa . . . . . Steve McQueenCapt. Danny De Mortimer . . . . . Richard JohnsonNikko Regas . . . . . Paul Henre???dGeneral Sloan . . . . . Brian Don???evySgt. Jim Norby . . . . . Dean JonesSgt. John Danforth . . . . . Charles BronsonNautaung . . . . . Philip AhnCol. Fred Parkson . . . . . Robert BrayMargaret Fitch . . . . . Kipp HamiltonColonel Reed . . . . . John HoytCaptain Alofson . . . . . Whit BissellMike Island . . . . . Richard LupinoBi???llingsly . . . . . Aki Aleong
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