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starring: Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin, Hope Lange, Barbara Rushdirected by: Edward Dmytryk
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 5013037007510
Format: Black & White, HiFi Sound, Import, PAL
Label: CBS Fox Video
Manufacturer: CBS Fox Video
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: CBS Fox Video
Sales Rank: 142276
Studio: CBS Fox Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 02, 1958
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - WWII drama from German and American perspectives
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 ... Read More
Rating: - Another World War Two Film
I had never seen this film before but am on a mission to see all of Marlon Brando's movies. In this film based on the novel by Irwin Shaw, Brando plays a Nazi officer who is in the new word of the month, "conflicted" by what the Germans are doing. There is one scene, for example, where he disobeys an order by his superior officer played by Maximillian Schell to kill a soldier. Even though this film is shot in black and white, it is obvious that the makeup people have died Brando's hair light blond, something ... Read More
Rating:  - By no measure a "classic" war film
Having a very large collection of war films, there is a lot on shelf by which to compare and contrast this one. This is by no measure a "classic" war film, because that label would rank it up there with "Saving Private Ryan," "The Longest Day," "Tora-Tora-Tora," and many others through which the "classic" standard was developed.
Given, this COULD have been, and perhaps should have been a great film, but it is full of flaws, and unfortunately three of them are the acting of three pretty fair actors. ... Read More
Rating:  - Occassionally ambitious but often timid would-be blockbuster
Heavily diluting Irwin Shaw's doorstop novel about two American soldiers and one Nazi whose paths gradually converge over the years from 1939-45 into an expensive but mostly not very good, often surprisingly studiobound CinemaScope soap opera, 1958's The Young Lions delivers a lot less dramatic weight than you'd expect from a film featuring both Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift.
The two stars only encounter each other in the film's last couple of minutes and don't even share a scene, but there's little ... Read More
Rating:  - The Young Lions
Great WW2 picture depicting US/German sides of the war. Excellent casting with Brando and Britt at their best and Martin & Clift also there. This one film to see more than once. Wish it was in color but B&W does the job.
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