La Proie des vautours

Original title: Never So Few

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5.8/10

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During WW2, the American OSS mounts covert operations with the native Kachin against the Japanese army in the jungles of Burma.

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During WW2, the American OSS mounts covert operations with the native Kachin against the Japanese army in the jungles of Burma.During WW2, the American OSS mounts covert operations with the native Kachin against the Japanese army in the jungles of Burma.During WW2, the American OSS mounts covert operations with the native Kachin against the Japanese army in the jungles of Burma.

Director
- John Sturges
Writers
- Millard Kaufman
- Tom T. Chamales
Stars

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IMDb RATING

5.8/10

3.5K

YOUR RATING

Director
- John Sturges
Writers
- Millard Kaufman
- Tom T. Chamales
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
Steve McQueen's role was originally going to be played by Sammy Davis Jr.. A feud had broken out between Davis and Frank Sinatra after Davis had claimed in a radio interview that he was a greater singer than Sinatra. Sinatra demanded he be dropped from the cast, and McQueen got the part. McQueen was mainly noted at the time for the television series Au nom de la loi (1958) and the horror movie Danger planétaire (1958). La Proie des vautours (1959) marked his introduction to working with director John Sturges, who went on to cast McQueen in his breakout role the following year, as second lead in Les 7 mercenaires (1960), and later as the motorcycle-jumping lead in the classic La grande évasion (1963).

Goofs
At the beginning of this WWII film, supplies are parachuted to the troops. On several of the boxes, USAF was stenciled on the boxes. The United States Air Force was not named until 1947 and the stencil should have read USAAF (United States Army Air Force).

Quotes
Capt. Tom Reynolds: You know, the movies have got it all wrong, a cigarette tastes lousy when you're wounded.

Connections
Featured in Wogan: Episode #9.61 (1989)

Soundtracks
Burmese Fanfare
(uncredited)
Music by Charles Wolcott

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6/10

3 out of 5 action rating

Skip it – This was supposed to be a starring vehicle for Frank Sinatra. But this is romance, not war. There's some combat in the beginning and in the middle, but a lot of nothing the rest of the way. Sinatra's got a different rat pack in this one, made up of youngsters Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson. McQueen steals the show in one of his earliest roles. But he's not in enough scenes, and the only action scenes are the one's he's in. The title of the film insinuates that never before has so much been owed to so few. That's funny, because never before have so few of my expectations for a good action movie been met. 3.5 out of 5 action rating