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The Young Lions is a 1958 American epic World War II drama film directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, and Dean Martin. It was made in black-and-white and CinemaScope and was theatrically released by 20th Century-Fox. The film is based on the 1948 novel of the same name by Irwin Shaw .
The Young Lions: Directed by Edward Dmytryk. With Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin, Hope Lange. The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.
Three soldiers endure the crucible of World War II. Christian Diestl (Marlon Brando) is a ski instructor turned Nazi lieutenant whose initial enthusiasm for Hitler is vanishing, Noah Ackerman ...
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The Young Lions (1948) is a novel by Irwin Shaw about three soldiers in World War II. Plot. Christian Diestl is at first a sympathetic Austrian drawn to Nazism by despair for his future but willing to sacrifice Jews if necessary. Noah Ackerman is an American Jew facing discrimination.
The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII. The destiny of three soldiers during World War II. The German officer Christian Diestl approves less and less of the war.
The Young Lions (1958) started life in book form as a bestseller by Irwin Shaw in 1948, telling the stories of three men, one German and two Americans, who go through World War II searching for meaning in both their lives and the war. Just three years after the end of the war, with the horrors of the Holocaust still preeminent in most people's ...
