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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.
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 .
Christian Diestl (Marlon Brando) is a ski instructor turned Nazi lieutenant whose initial enthusiasm for Hitler is vanishing, Noah Ackerman (Montgomery Clift) is a Jewish-American grunt...
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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 (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 Young Lions, American war film, released in 1958, that examines how World War II affects the lives of three disparate young soldiers. One of the movie’s central characters is Christian Diestl (played by Marlon Brando), an idealistic young German who willingly joins the military because of his.
On New Year's Eve, 1938, Christian Diestl, a Bavarian shoemaker and part-time ski instructor, is romancing American Margaret Freemantle at a party. When Margaret asks Christian if he is a Nazi party member, he replies that he is not at all political but believes that the Nazis stand for something hopeful in Germany.
The Young Lions is a canvas of the Second World War of scope and stature. It’s a kingsized credit to all concerned, from Edward Anhalt’s skillful adaptation of Irwin Shaw’s...
"The Young Lions" is a black & white 1958 WW2 drama featuring Marlon Brando, Dean Martin and Montgomery Clift. The film attempts to show the German, American and French sides of the war. Brando stars as a young German officer who becomes increasingly disillusioned with Hitler's regime and the world war he started.
