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Never So Few

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Never So Few	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Never So Few is a 1959 film directed by John Sturges.It's a World War II movie about special operations behind enemy (Japanese) lines in Burma. Tom Reynolds (Frank Sinatra) is an OSS agent (the OSS being the forerunners of the CIA) leading a squad of Kachin fighters in northern Burma. The men operate in difficult conditions, with major supply difficulties (unreliable parachutes only) and without a doctor for the unit.Tom goes on leave in Calcutta, where he meets a gorgeous Italian woman named Carla (Gina Lollobrigida). Carla, the kept woman of vaguely disreputable merchant Nikko Regas (Paul Henreid), seems intrigued by Tom but rebuffs his advances. There's still a war to fight, though, and back with his unit, Tom deals with problems like a traitor in the regiment and, even worse, attacks from renegade Chinese.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The cast of this film includes, in addition to the above, a bunch of up-and-comers who went on to become bigger stars. Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson appear as, respectively, Tom's aide Cpl. Bill Ringa and Sgt. John Danforth the Navajo "code talker". Future Disney stalwart Dean Jones plays Sgt. Jim Norby, the radar operator. And if that isn't enough for future stars, James Hong plays a Chinese general and both Mako and George Takei have bit parts as injured soldiers in the hospital.
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Never So Few / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Never So Few / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The opening titles say "It has been said that NEVER have free men everywhere owed so much to SO FEW." This is of course a paraphrase of a famous Winston Churchill quote.
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Never So Few / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
Never So Few / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: Tom looks after his men. When a hospital diet of unfamiliar foods starts giving his men the runs, Tom leads a march into the head doctor's office (George Takei trailing right behind) and demands the Kachin get more of their traditional foods to eat.
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Never So Few / int_19da8a03	type	Incurable Cough of Death
Never So Few / int_19da8a03	comment	Incurable Cough of Death: Danny gets sweaty while out on an excursion with Tom and Carla, and says that he feels "a little clammy." It's an attack of malaria, and moments later he keels over.
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Never So Few / int_2f30a078	type	Binocular Shot
Never So Few / int_2f30a078	comment	Binocular Shot: The standard figure-8 binocular view for both Danny and Tom as they get within sight of the camp of Chinese renegades.
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Never So Few / int_34dd5f3	type	La RÃ©sistance
Never So Few / int_34dd5f3	comment	La Résistance: The Kachin, the native people of northern Burma, organized into a behind-the-lines guerilla force under OSS leadership.
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Never So Few / int_3cf44d4b	type	High-Class Glass
Never So Few / int_3cf44d4b	comment	High-Class Glass: Tom's co-commander of the unit, Capt. Danny De Mortimer, is a British officer with a monocle, and the plummy RP accent to match. When challenged about it, Danny says that in fact he has an eye injury, and he does indeed have an ugly scar above and below the eye with the monocle.
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Never So Few / int_4764ce3a	type	Military Moonshiner
Never So Few / int_4764ce3a	comment	Military Moonshiner: Bill offers Tom a flask of some noxious gin. When Tom asks how he got it, Bill reveals that he himself makes, bottles, and sells it.
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Never So Few / int_6331ba26	type	Plot Hole
Never So Few / int_6331ba26	comment	Plot Hole: Apparently Tom's unit in the jungle has access to an airstrip, because an airplane flies him and Donny into friendly territory, from whence they travel to Calcutta to meet Carla and Bill. But if they can leave the bush via an airplane, why do men and supplies have to parachute back in?
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Never So Few / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
Never So Few / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: In the source novel Tom dies but in the film he lives and seems fated for a future with Carla.
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Never So Few / int_76dd20be	type	Bath Kick
Never So Few / int_76dd20be	comment	Bath Kick: Carla kicks up a long, sexy leg during her...
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Never So Few / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Never So Few / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: The crates of parachuted supplies hit the ground. Sgt. Danforth opens one, pulls out a bottle of liquor, and screams with joy "This is it!". His CO Cpt. Reynolds then barks at him to start stowing the gear, marking Cpt. Reynolds as no-nonsense.
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Never So Few / int_92e5b254	type	Communications Officer
Never So Few / int_92e5b254	comment	Communications Officer: Sgt. Danforth the Navajo "code talker" who is responsible for over-the-air communication with Allied command back in Calcutta.
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Never So Few / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Never So Few / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The return of Bill and Danny from leave, bringing Dr. Travis, causes the regiment to throw a feast. There's roast peacock and music and jokes. Then out of nowhere the Japanese appear and attack the camp.
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Never So Few / int_a7c904c3	type	America Won World War II
Never So Few / int_a7c904c3	comment	America Won World War II: Burma, almost entirely a British/Commonwealth theater of operations, and most of the leaders are Americans. Justified in that this specific story is inspired by a real American/Kachin OSS unit.
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Never So Few / int_a82ff02f	type	Meet Cute
Never So Few / int_a82ff02f	comment	Meet Cute: Tom meets Carla while he's sprawled out on the floor of a nightclub after punching Danny.
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Never So Few / int_a8556a04	type	Video Credits
Never So Few / int_a8556a04	comment	Video Credits: All of the main players except for top-billed Sinatra and Lollobrigida are accompanied by video clips over the opening credits.
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Never So Few / int_a8c50563	type	Bathtub Scene
Never So Few / int_a8c50563	comment	Bathtub Scene: Tom goes looking for Carla, and she calls him in. He is taken aback when he opens a door and finds himself in her opulent bathroom, with Carla naked and taking a bath in a tub. Carla takes delight in teasing him, forcing a flustered Tom to engage in small talk before he leaves the room. (Given how clear and low the water is, it would seem that Lollobrigida was wearing some kind of body stocking.)
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Never So Few / int_b9af5ef3	type	The Film of the Book
Never So Few / int_b9af5ef3	comment	The Film of the Book: Adapted from a 1957 novel of the same name by real-life WW2/OSS veteran Tom T. Chamales.
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Never So Few / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Never So Few / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Sgt. Danforth the Navajo gets very pissed when Norby calls him "Hiawatha".
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Never So Few / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Never So Few / int_caf8c66c	comment	The Chains of Commanding: Everyone is shocked at Tom's Mercy Kill of a mortally wounded soldier. Sgt. Norby asks why didn't Tom have Nautaung, the senior Kachin in the unit, do it. Tom answers "Because it's my job, that's why."
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Never So Few / int_da19c62a	type	Leave No Survivors
Never So Few / int_da19c62a	comment	Leave No Survivors: A Not Quite Dead Chinese bandit kills Danny. Tom, who has gotten an order to release all the Chinese bandits and send an official apology to the Chinese government for his border incursion, instead orders Bill to execute all of them.
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Never So Few / int_db911ee	type	Field Promotion
Never So Few / int_db911ee	comment	Field Promotion: Tom, thinking that he's going to face court martial for making an incursion into China and attacking the Chinese bandits, and killing the prisoners, gives Bill a "field commission" to 2nd Lieutenant and puts him in charge of the unit.
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Never So Few / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Never So Few / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: There was a real OSS unit, involving OSS officers leading Kachin natives, that did in fact operate behind Japanese lines in Burma.
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Never So Few / int_e73f6217	type	Feet-First Introduction
Never So Few / int_e73f6217	comment	Feet-First Introduction: Tom punches Danny in the nightclub—they weren't even really fighting, just horsing around, but they both hit the floor. Tom looks up to see high heels and smooth, lovely calves, and meets Carla.
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Never So Few / int_ec0a7691	type	The Natives Are Restless
Never So Few / int_ec0a7691	comment	The Natives Are Restless: Inverted; the disturbing presence of a good-looking native woman leads to Danforth getting territorial and challenging Tom to a fight. Tom blows him off, saying "The whites are sure restless tonight."
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Never So Few / int_ed503b22	type	Match Cut
Never So Few / int_ed503b22	comment	Match Cut: A shot of Tom and Carla embracing and kissing in the military hospital cuts to them doing the same in her hotel suite.
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Never So Few / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
Never So Few / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: Tom has a man, shot in the stomach, who is doomed to die without a doctor and doomed to die slowly and painfully over 12 hours or so since the unit is out of morphine. Tom shoots him, over the protests of his co-commander Cpt. De Mortimer.
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Never So Few / int_f62b8d00	type	Sinister Switchblade
Never So Few / int_f62b8d00	comment	Sinister Switchblade: Bill flicks out a scary switchblade while facing off with an Indian MP. Subverted when Bill uses the knife to slash the rope holding a rolled-up carpet. The carpet falls on the MP which allows Bill to win the fight.
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