NEVER SO FEW

'''Never So Few''' is a 1959 film directed by John Sturges starring Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford, and Steve McQueen. It follows Captain Tom Reynolds (Sinatra) and his love Carla Vesari (Lollobrigida) in war ravenged Burma and Reynolds fellow OSS operatives Captain Grey Travis (Lawford) and Corporal Bill Ringa (McQueen) try to train Kachin natives to fight in World War II. The script was loosely based on an actual OSS Detachment 101 incident recorded in the 1957 novel by Tom T. Chamales.

Contents

A break for Steve McQueen

Changing movie poster

External link

A break for Steve McQueen

Rat Pack cohort Sammy Davis, Jr. was originally slated to play McQueen's role, but Sinatra yanked it away after Davis mildly criticized Sinatra during a radio interview. McQueen was mainly noted at the time for the television series '' (and the movie ''The Blob''), and ''Never So Few'' marked his introduction to working with director John Sturges, who went on to cast him in his first breakthrough role the following year, as second lead in ''The Magnificent Seven'', and later in the even more career-crucial classic ''The Great Escape'' (1963). By the late 1960s, McQueen was the highest paid actor in the world, in large part due to his runaway popularity in Japan and the rest of Asia.

Changing movie poster

On the original US one-sheet poster, only Frank Sinatra and Gina Lollobrigida are top billed, in the 1967 re-release of the poster, Steve McQueen is added to the top billing, undoubtedly due to his skyrocketing rise in fame.

External link

★