After a skirmish, the two bunches initiate a fragile truce with the understanding that fighting will resume if one or the other sends for help. There takes place a physical and psychological battle between American/Japanese with anti-war allegory. But in this uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean there is one Japanese military group and both of them stranded together. American and marooned Japanese soldiers (survivors from a Japanese battalion) are stranded on a tiny Pacific island, in the Salomons, during World War II. During WWII, an American bomber aircraft is gunned down and crashes on an island (the plane flown that was shot down was R4D, C47 transport).

Sinatra's directorial debut, it results to be an efficient effort, a straightforward and gripping movie, being the first Japanese/American co-production. The title is from John Dryden's poem, 'Alexander's Feast', stanza 1: 'None but the brave/ deserve the fair'.

Reviewed by ma-cortes 7 / 10 Enjoyable Sinatra film in which an American plane crash-lands on an island already inhabited by stranded Japanese forces

None but the brave cast