None But the Brave (Warner Bros.) (1965)

Pool Of Death Ambush and death meet this American soldier as he tries to drink from the only good water source on a remote Pacific island held by Japanese. Scene is from “None But the Brave”, powerful new Warner Bros. drama in Technicolor and Panavision which opens the se ae 8 a Le sive! 6's at Theatre. “‘“None But the Brave”? marks the debut of Frank Sinatra as a director. He was also producer, and is starred, together with Clint Walker, Tommy Sands, Brad Dexter, Tony Bill, Sammy Jackson and Japan’s top screen idols, Tatsuya Mihashi and Takeshi Kato. Mat 2-D Still No. 480/57 (Special Publicity Still) Even Stars Get The Crack-Down In Japan, Brave When a Japanese motion picture actor muffs a line, he gets a scolding from the director and sometimes even a nasty note from the studio head, according to Tatsuya Mihashi, romantic Nipponese screen idol who makes his Hollywood debut in “None But the Brave’, new Warner Bros. drama in Technicolor and Panavision which opens ...:... atriaer, aaeuek Theatre. Mihashi is starred, together with another Tokyo acting favorite, Takeshi Kato, and an American lineup of Frank Sinatra, Clint Walker, Tommy Sand, Tony Bill, Brad Dexter and Sammy Jackson. Sinatra produced and directed. The reason for the bawl-out, Mihashi explains, is that film stock is very costly in Japan. “We rehearse many days before shooting begins,” he says. “In Hollywood you often do not rehearse at all, the shooting just begins. We work seven days a week, and often go from one picture right into another. So we work almost all the time. Several Tokyo studios only recently announced on one Sunday each month there would be no shooting. In Hollywood I worked five days a week and felt I had a vacation every week.” Mihashi reached the American screen through an unique co-production deal between a top Japanese Topper Reports producing-firm and one owned by Sinatra. Each side furnished a complement of production personnel and a roster of important actors. Mihashi was among the 12 topflight Nipponese thespians involved. The Tokyo star liked working in Hollywood. He found that, “The American actor has fun while at work. He laughs and is relaxed, but when he works he works hard. The Japanese actor does not have so much opportunity for fun, and he’s more serious, more dedicated. Everything is bigger in Hollywood,” he adds. “Bigger stages, crews and sets, and much more equipment. Length of shooting-schedules, though, is about the same.” Mihashi forecast great enthusiasm for “None But the Brave” in his own country. He thinks the story of a man-to-man fight between equalsized platoons of soldiers from both sides, and then a truce, should appeal very much to the Japanese movie buff. “Besides,” he says, “Frank Sinatra is very popular with us. His recordings are on radio all the time. We've seen lots of pictures where Japanese are portrayed by American Nisei, even by Chinese and Mexicans. We will be glad to see our soldiers played by Japanese and speaking our language, too.” Respect, The Hard Way | Not only common exhaustion but mutual respect and the beginning of friendship between the leaders of opposing forces, Tatsuya Mihashi and Clint Walker, result from the joint fight they and their men make to save the sole fresh water supply on a Pacifie island. Scene is from “None But the Brave’’, Warner Bros. new Technicolor Panavision drama which opens ... Sete atthe ...... Theatre. The international cast stars Mihashi and Walker, along with Frank Sinatra, Tommy Sands, Brad Dexter, Tony Bill, Sammy Jackson and Takeshi Kato, “None But the Brave” was produced and directed by Sinatra. Mat 2-F Still No. 480/X1 (Special Publicity Still) PAGE 4 ‘None But The Brave’ Scenario Decided Sinatra To Direct Too Few Guns Left In Japan To Equip Actors Not enough Japanese rifles and other small weapons of World War II vintage could be found in all of Japan to equip a group of Tokyo actors appearing in “None But the Brave”, new Warner Bros. drama in Technicolor-Panavision which opens at the ee The co-production deal between Frank Sinatra’s producing company and a Japanese film firm required the Nippons to furnish the military equipment for their side. Uniforms proved no problem but weapons did. American forces occupying Japan at the end of the war were under orders to confiscate and destroy weapons. Apparently the occupiers did their job too thoroughly. “None But the Brave,” produced and directed by Sinatra, stars him along with Tommy Sands, Clint Walker, Brad Dexter, Tony Bill, Sammy Jackson and two top Japanese actors, Takeshi Kato and Tatsuya Mihashi. Jungle Guard Trapped in a Pacific island jungle when his ’plane crashed, Tony Bill, starred as the radio-operator of a Marine combat group, guards the remaining radio equipment in this scene from “None But the Brave”. Warner Bros.’ new Technicolor-Panavision release opens ...... at the a Theatre. Also starred are Frank Sinatra, Tommy Sands, Clint Walker, Brad Dexter, Sammy Jackson and two top Japanese actors, Tatsuya Mihashi and Takeshi Kato. Frank Sinatra produced and directed “None But the Brave.” Mat 1-E_ Still No. 480/78 Four Warblers In Cast But Japanese Sings Only Song In ‘Brave’ The only singing of any consequence in “None But the Brave”, new Warner Bros. war drama in Technicolor and Panavision which opens Gree at the ...... Theatre, is done by a Japanese actor even though the cast numbers fully four professional American singers. Frank Sinatra, producer-director of “None But the Brave”, chose Homare Suguro, noted Nipponese performer, to sing a Japanese love song for the sound-track of the film. Sinatra himself, though probably the world’s foremost popular singer, does only a few bars of “Home, Sweet Home” during a big drunk scene. But the cast also includes Tommy Sands, at least one of whose records has sold a million copies; Phil Crosby, son of Bing, who records regularly; and Jimmy Griffin. 20-year-old warbler who cuts song discs for Reprise Records. “None But the Brave” stars Sinatra and Sands, along with Clint Walker, Brad Dexter, Tony Bill; Sammy Jackson and two of Tokyo’s top thespians, Takeshi Kato and Tatsuya Mihashi. Frank Sinatra is a star of screen, television, records, nightclubs.. He owns radio, record and film-producing companies and recently became special assistant to Jack L. Warner, head of Warner Bros. Pictures. What more could he want? “I have planned for ten years to become a director,” says Sinatra. “Eventually I’ll be too old to play the kind of characters I like. I’ve studied the methods of Hollywood’s best directors, and have spent a lot of time in cutting-rooms helping to edit my own pictures. | think I know acting and story values. Then I found this script at Warner Brothers, written by a Japanese and telling a tense World War Two story about the Marines from the view of the Japanese. It was the script that made me decide to direct at this time.” The script was the one for “None But the Brave” and in his hands it became the basis of a multi-milliondollar production with an international cast. The film, in Panavision and Technicolor, opens ....... at the Theatre. Sinatra stars, together with Clint Walker, Tommy Sands, Brad Dexter, Tony Bill, Sammy Jackson, and two outstanding Japanese actors, Tatsuya Mihashi and Takeshi Kato. Characteristically, the restless Sinatra sought no easy paths in planning his production of “None But the Brave”. He took many of his players from television, sports, singing and recording. And he passed over the temptation to use Nisei, that is American-born Japanese, as other film-makers do because when Nisei speak they lack the authentic fanatical quality of Nipponese warriors. What he did was to obtain the services of 12 outstanding Tokyo actors, and virtually a second productioncompany to handle them. None of the Nipponese performers had ever played in a Hollywood movie, and only one spoke English at all. Moreover, they were going to fight the Marines again in a film renewal of the war on an island not far from Pearl Harbor. But they sensed Sinatra would be good to work with. His films and records are very popular in Japan, he has made several trips to that country. The producer-director-star quickly put them at their ease. He abandoned the use of an interpreter and communicated with them directly through gestures, through Japanese words he learned, and through the marvelous intuitive language of show folk. The strain on him was heavy, but he loved it. “As an actor I would have a day off once in a while during a picture,” says Sinatra. “I slept a lot sounder and let the director do the worrying. But as a director I worked every day and nearly every night, too. I would wake up suddenly in bed and start thinking about the scene I was going to do the next day.” Newcomer Newcomer Laraine Stephens makes her screen bow in “None But the Brave’, Warner Bros.’ new Technicolor-Panavision war drama due to open ....... ual the ........ Theatre. The film, produced and directed by Frank Sinatra, stars him along with Tommy Sands, Clint Walker, Brad Dexter, Tony Bill, Sammy Jackson and two important Japanese actors, Tatsuya Mihashi and Takeshi Kato. Miss Stephens is the only American girl in the international cast. Mat 1-B Still No. 480/607 (Special Publicity Still) Pilots Agog Over Airplane Crashed For New Movie Producer-director Frank Sinatra bought a surplus C-47 transport in Honolulu, had it moved to a small Hawaiian island, called Kauai, and carefully wrecked it for important scenes in “None But the Brave”, Warner Bros.’ new Panavision-Technicolor drama which opens ........ at thennk eas Theatre. Naturally, he notified Hawaiian aviation authorities of the presence of a damaged *plane on one of their beautiful islands. However, unaware pilots kept circling the location when they spotted the banged-up C-47, and kept coming closer for a better look, thus interfering seriously with the filming of “None But the Brave”. The problem was finally solved when the film-crew installed a big sign reading, “This is a movie set. Quiet, please.” “None But the Brave’, Sinatra’s first directorial stint, stars him together with Tommy Sands, Clint Walker, Brad Dexter, Sammy Jackson, Tony Bill and two notable Nipponese actors, Takeshi Kato and Tatsuya Mihashi. The story deals with the respect and friendship that grows up between enemy platoons of Japanese and American soldiers. Differences Buried Frank Sinatra and Hisao Dazai, representing an American and a Japanese group of fighting-men, jointly lead funeral services for a Nippon private in this scene from “None But the Brave’, new Warner Bros. release which opens ..... at the Theatre. The Technicolor-Panavision film has an international cast. Dazai is featured and Sinatra starred, together with Tommy Sands, Clint Walker, Brad Dexter, Tony Bill, Sammy Jackson, Takeshi Kato and Tatsuya Mihashi. “None But the Brave”, Sinatra’s first directing venture, tells of the ultimate friendship between opposing forces stranded on the same Pacific island. Mat 2-G_ Still No. 480/39