None But the Brave (1965)

NONE BUT THE BRAVE  (1965)  ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra, Clint Walker, Tommy Sands,
    Tatsuya Mihashi, Brad Dexter, Tony Bill
The only movie Frank Sinatra directed is about a small band of U.S. Marines and their Japanese counterparts, fighting it out and tenuously coexisting on an island in the Pacific during World War Two. Not a bad idea, but the script comes down a little heavy, and Tommy Sands' rabid performance as a green but gung-ho lieutenant belongs in a cartoon. The Japanese soldiers speak Japanese without subtitles. When the Japanese commander switches to English, the letter "L" takes a real beating. John Boorman covered much of the same ground more efficiently with just two antagonists in "Hell In the Pacific" (1968).