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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.
Three different men experience combat in WWII. One is a German who becomes disillusioned with Nazism, one is an American entertainer who ends up being drafted, and the third is a sensitive Jewish...
- Edward Dmytryk
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. Jewish-American Noah Ackerman deals with antisemitism at home and in the army while entertainer Michael Whiteacre transforms from playboy to hero.
Lt. Christian Diestl (Marlon Brando) is a dutiful German who finds the war more and more troubling. Meanwhile back in the US, Jewish Noah Ackerman (Montgomery Clift) finds love, and entertainer Michael Whiteacre (Dean Martin) try to avoid the war. This movie is split in three. I find the Marlon Brando part very intriguing right from the start.
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- Edward Dmytryk
- 1958-04-02
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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 belief in Adolf Hitler and National Socialism. The film traces the gradual development of his skepticism about and then outright rejection of Nazism, though he reluctantly continues to serve as a lieutenant in the German army. Diestl’s story intertwines with those of two American soldiers: Noah Ackerman (Montgomery Clift), a Jew who has to fight bigotry in and out of the service, and Michael Whiteacre (Dean Martin), a popular Broadway star who, after being drafted, initially uses his fame to dodge dangerous assignments. The movie blends the experiences of the young men, including their tumultuous relationships with the women they love.
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•Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox
•Director: Edward Dmytryk
•Producer: Al Lichtman
•Writer: Edward Anhalt
•Music: Hugo Friedhofer
•Running time: 167 minutes
•Marlon Brando (Christian Diestl)
•Montgomery Clift (Noah Ackerman)
•Dean Martin (Michael Whiteacre)
•Hope Lange (Hope Plowman)
- Lee Pfeiffer
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 who...
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