- Format: PAL
- Subtitles: Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.35:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: PG
- Studio: Twentieth Century Fox
- DVD Release Date: 18 April 2005
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B0007P8KWI
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 13,839 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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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 The Young Lions, 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 likeable coward," Clift is intense as a Jewish GI and Brando experiments with the limits of his part as a Nazi re-evaluating 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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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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A very deep war-drama that shows real people with their own individual stories on both sides in WW2. Similar to "All Quiet on the Western Front" about WW1, it is surprising to think of German soldiers as distinguishable individuals with their own thoughts, fears and motives. It is a lot more difficult to make a film this way about WW2 than it is about WW1 because it is impossible to sympathise with Germany. This film is based on a deep novel and, needless to say, the acting (esp. Brando's) is perfect. Even though I don't want to see anything good in German soldiers in WW2, they were, afterall, individual people and this movie, like no other, shows it very well and makes the best out of it.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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An admirable attempt to balance the human motivations on both sides. This film sticks in my memory as being one of the few that offered something of a balanced view - although there is still A LOT left unsaid. At least, we don't get the one-dimensional sadist Nazis and actually are allowed to empathise with real people on both sides. What a change from the unsubtle propoganda that typifies a thousand other "great" war films where every victim of atrocities is a faultless hero.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Opening as Germany gears it's population up for war, The Young Lions charts the progress of three very different characters; Clift's Jewish 'Everyman', Martin's callow Broadway star and Brando's increasingly disillusioned Nazi ski instructor. There paths inevitably cross along the way, during the conflict, but that isn't the real story. This is truly, as all the great war films are, a story about the people, not war. We see racism amongst those on the same side, bravery, love... every gambit of the human character is played out by the three leads and those around them. Ok, the *very* final scene may be a little too schmaltzy, but the overall message is so strong that it hardly matters. Well worth watching!
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now read the book
Saw this film around 1959, aged nine & with my mum in a small cinema in Birch Lane, in Bradford, West Yorks as the main feature after the obligatory 'My Friend Flicka', 'Bugs... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Tarzana Kid
correct ending ?
This has a different ending from that which I remember. Did they make two versions, which was quite common at the time, one for the USA & one for Europe. Read more
Published 18 months ago by A. Fletcher
THE YOUNG LIONS
I had read the book by Irwin Shaw maybe 30 years ago but never seen the film or even if available until Amazon came along. Read more
Published 20 months ago by G. Coles
Intelligent film?
Yes, it is. Well, at least a lot more intelligent and thought provoking than many Hollywood war films in which the yanks are the goodies and the krauts are the one dimensional... Read more
Published on 27 Mar 2010 by A customer
Brando shines
This has to be one of the best Brando films but it is let down by being so flabby in it's narrative. Read more
Published on 16 July 2009 by kdog
The young lions
Bloody brilliant, love this film. Watched it years ago then found it on Amazon and had to have it.
Published on 1 July 2009 by Adrian lee Clarke
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... Read more
Published on 28 Nov 2008 by Trevor Willsmer
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