This is really a Poverty Row movie,they must have spent the budget on Miss Lollobrigida's ludicrous outfits straight from Hardy Amies and Christian Dior and bearing absolutely no relationship to the period in which it was set.In her every scene I expected dear Cecil Beaton to pop up with his Rolleiflex.I suspect he would have made a more convincing soldier than Mr Sinatra who looks as if he had forgotten everything his acting coach had taught him.He doesn't know what to do with his hands, he keeps on touching his hair(perhaps to make sure it's staying on),appears to be looking down at his mark a lot of the time and has trouble avoiding the furniture in several interior shots.His wooing of the immaculately groomed ,elegantly coiffured and tightly sheathed Miss Lollobrigida is perfunctory to say the least.He seems to prefer the company of the adoring Steve Mcqueen who is clearly overwhelmed by the presence of the Chairman of the Board.Perhaps a place as a junior member of the Rat Pack was at stake. Peter Lawford whose early talent as a song and dance man was exceeded by his talent for pimping girls for the President of the United States who,conveniently happened to be his brother-in-law and another close chum of the Chairman(at least up until he got elected) is the other Clansman present in body if not in spirit. Richard Johnson is right up there with the top contenders for the title of best performance by an English actor with a moustache,a monocle and dyed black hair in an American war movie in 1959.His death scene only bettered by Olivier's in "Brideshead Revisited".His monocle is gently removed by a grieving Chairman - for me the highpoint of the movie. My one regret about the casting is that Sammy and Dean didn't get to make the gig.The Chairman doesn't get to call anyone "Clyde" - which is a pity really.... That nice Mr Sulu from "Star Trek" gets some early exposure and the Chairman rather insensitively tells some of his injured soldiers to get back in the jungle where they came from - but it's easy to be picky, generally speaking "Never so few" is a sheer delight for lovers of terrible movies. The battle scenes are hilarious.With Steve driving what looks suspiciously like a Land Rover through lines of Chinese warplanes whilst the Chairman throws endless cans of petrol overboard (about 30 kilos a can - he must be stronger than he looks) with unerring aim. They emerge from this cauldron of heat without so much as a smudge on their faces,the Chairman's hat staying resolutely in place throughout. The great Brian Donlevy tries hard to appear interested but eventually gives up the ghost and sits with a fixed grin and a glassy stare whilst the Chairman gives his big speech defending the American Way,which of course is His Way. Not until "Von Ryan's Express" six years later did he surpass this silliness.Sammy and Dean missed that one too but played the numbers game with "Ocean's Eleven","Sergeants Three","Four for Texas" and "Robin and the seven Hoods",reassuringly light - hearted stuff that nobody,least of all themselves took remotely seriously. There is nothing intentionally funny about "Never so few" but it made me laugh Morie than all the other Clan movies put together.