The Young Lions
by Edward Dmytryk
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Actor: Barbara Rush, Dean Martin, Hope Lange, Marlon Brando, Montgomery CliftDirector: Edward Dmytryk
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Spanish (Published)
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 167 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-05-21
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of The Young Lions
Movie Review: WWII drama from German and American perspectives
Summary: 4 Stars
Based on a novel by Irving Shaw, The Young Lions is a rare WWII movie in that it tries to tell the story of both sides, German and American, through three separate characters. Christian Diestl is a young lieutenant in the German army, an idealistic German and not a Nazi, who begins to question his beliefs has the war takes a turn for the worse and he sees what war brings out in people. Noah Ackerman is a loner who meets a young woman and falls in love, marrying her days before heading off to boot camp. Ackerman must deal with the anti-Semetic prejudices of many people around him when all he wants to do is prove himself. Mike Whiteacre is a Broadway singer and an admitted coward who is fed up with being drafted. With a run time of just under three hours, the characters are given a chance to develop and grow in a believable way as the war begins in the late 1930s and continues as the tide turns in Europe. Some scenes will have a lasting impact, Diestl walking through bombed out Berlin, Diestl talking with a SS commandant of a concentration camp, and the liberation of the same camp by the Americans. This isn't an action movie, but the battle scenes are well-done and very tense. An all-around solid movie that doesn't get the respect it deserves.
Leading a great cast, Marlon Brando gets top billing and the most screen time as Christian Diestl, the idealistic young German officer trying to come to terms with what the war is actually about. Brando gives one of his best, if not most well-known, performances as Diestl. In a role somewhat similar to his part in From Here To Eternity, Montgomery Clift gives an excellent performance as Noah Ackerman, a Jewish soldier with his bride and baby girl at home while he deals with prejudices from his own Army. Dean Martin is solid as Mike Whiteacre, a Broadway singer trying to overcome his deepest fears. All three of the main leads make their characters believable and likable, something that can be hard to do with a war movie. The supporting cast is excellent as well including Hope Lange, Barbara Rush, May Britt, Maximillian Schell, Lee Van Cleef, Arthur Franz, Parley Baer, Dora Doll, and Hal Baylor.
The DVD presents the movie in a beautiful widescreen presentation that really shows off the black and white cinematography, which earned the movie an Oscar nomination. A theatrical trailer is included along with trailers from six other Fox war movies, including Halls of Montezuma and Guadalcanal Diary. An underappreciated WWII drama with a great cast, check out The Young Lions!
Summary of The Young Lions
One of the most thoughtful films about World War?II, this 1958 Edward Dmytryk (The Left Hand of God) drama, based on a novel by Irwin Shaw, tells parallel stories of two American soldiers (Montgomery Clift and Dean Martin) and one German officer (Marlon Brando), whose war experiences we follow until they intersect outside a concentration camp. Martin plays what he calls "a likable coward," Clift is intense as a Jewish GI, and Brando experiments with the limits of his part as a Nazi reevaluating his beliefs. Legend has it that Clift accused Brando of bleeding-heart excessiveness. Interestingly, the two Method actors share no scenes together. --Tom KeoghAction & Adventure DVD Video
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