
[1958]
DIRECTED BY: Edward Dmytryk
RELEASE DATE: 18.04.2005
AWARDS: Nominated for 3 academy award 1958, Cinematography, Music and Sound
STARRING:
Academy Award winner Marlon Brando capture the extraordinary contradictions and complexity of a decent man who becomes a Nazi officer. The Young Lions tells the story of World War II from both sides. The American, represented by Montgomery Clift and Dean Martin. And the German mad tragically vivid by Brando, Based on the novel by Irwin Shaw, the Young Lions is a provocative, insightful movie. It is also one of Brando's all-time best.
(Time Out Film Guide Review)
"This version of Irwin Shaw's lengthy WWII novel is three movies for the price of one. We follow idealistic German [Marlon] Brando, American soldier (Montgomery) Clift and crooner (Dean) Martin from the time of enlistment until their paths eventually cross outside a concentration camp towards the end of the war."