The Young Lions
by Edward Dmytryk
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Actor: Barbara Rush, Dean Martin, Hope Lange, Marlon Brando, Montgomery CliftDirector: Edward Dmytryk
Brand: BRANDO,MARLON
Cinematographer: Joseph MacDonald
Editor: Dorothy Spencer
Producer: Al Lichtman
Writer: Edward Anhalt
Writer: Irwin Shaw
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); French (Original Language); German (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
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: The Young Lions
Summary: 5 Stars
The saying is this: The book is always better then the movie. In this case, I do not believe that is so. I received this movie and watched it before I had ever read the book. The book is fine, but the movie is so much better. The film and the novel are very different, hardly having anything in common. Here are some of the differences:
1). In the novel, Dean Martin's character Michael Whiteacre is married. In the film, not so. He's got a girl, but they're not married.
2). In the novel, Montgomery Clift's character Noah Ackerman meets his wife at a party that he and a friend, who is not even mentioned in the movie, give at their apartment. In the movie, Dean introduces them.
3). In the novel, Marlon Brando's character Christian Diestl turns out as the war goes on to be cold-blooded, enjoying what he does. In the movie, his character is more symapathetic and doesn't like what is being done.
4). In the novel, Montgomery's character fights ten men after they stole the money which he was going to use to buy his wife a birthday present with. In the movie, it was only a handlful, about four to five at most. Though, in the novel and the movie he does get his rear beat repeatedly and only wins the last fight.
5). And the biggest difference is that Montgomery's character dies in the novel, but in the movie lives to return home to his wife and daugther (which in the novel had been a son).
There are other differences, but those are the most noticable. Marlon Brando does a wonderful job portraying a German who believes in his country, but who begins to doubt the way that Hitler and the Nazis' are going about it, because even though he is a German soilder, he is not a Nazi (which is another difference between the novel and the movie). Montgomery Clift is heartbreaking as the Jewish man that not only has to fight to survive the war, but who has to also fight to survive the cruel antisemitic treatment he receives from his fellow men. Most importantly about this film, however, or at least to me, this is the movie that showed everyone that Dean Martin could act; that he could make it without Jerry Lewis. After the failure of his first movie without Jerry, he made this film and received hardly anything for doing so; he did this because that was the only way they would give it to him. He did an amazing job as the man who's not afraid to admit that he's scared and he doesn't want to die--that he's a coward, but in the end triumphs.
I loved every minute of it. I did not regret buying this. There is no special features except for some theatrical trailers. It remarkably well-preserved, or at least my copy is; beautiful black and white cinematography.
Summary of The Young Lions
No Description Available.Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: NR
Release Date: 26-JUL-2005
Media Type: DVD
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 Keogh
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