Never So Few - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[willard]

MGM producer Sol Siegel imposed a happy ending on Sturges who wanted to let Frank Sinatra's character die.

[sylvia]

This movie is based on the real-life story of World War II's OSS Detachment 101. This was an OSS Operations Group designed to specialize in activities in the China-Burma-India region in collaboration with the Kachin Rangers and other Allied special operations units.

[liam]

In this film, Frank Sinatra referenced being from Indianapolis, Indiana. He also referenced being from Indiana three years earlier, playing a reporter named Mike Connor in the romantic comedy "High Society" (1956) .

[manuel]

Because of his heavy drinking problem, Brian Donlevy found it difficult to remember his lines.

[tamara]

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.

[christina]

John Hoyt, Whit Bissell, and George Takei all went on to become legendary television actors of the 1960s, and all three played memorable roles in Star Trek: The Original Series (1966), but no two of them, let alone all three, were ever in the same episode of that show.

[jesse]

The airplane taxiing on the airfield in the movie is an actual WW II Japanese Nakajima KI-84 "Hayate" (code named 'Frank'), and was the equal of any allied fighter plane at the time. This aircraft is now on display at the Chiran Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots in Kagoshima Japan, and is the only surviving example of this type.

[claude]

Steve McQueen and Mako would later appear together in "The Sand Pebbles" (1966).

[amber]

His brief role as a soldier in the hospital marked the film debut of Mako.