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The Young Lions (1958) 7.3
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 ... See full summary » Director:Edward Dmytryk |
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Noah Ackerman
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Michael Whiteacre
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Hope Plowman
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Margaret Freemantle
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Gretchen Hardenberg
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Dora Doll | ... |
Simone
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Hal Baylor | ... |
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Capt. Colclough
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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. Written by Mattias Thuresson
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soldier | suicide | german occupation of france | eiffel tower paris | guilt |Taglines:
20th CENTURY-FOX PRESENTS ALL THE DAYS AND NIGHTS OF the Young Lions (original print ad - mostly caps) See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USARelease Date:
2 April 1958 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Die jungen Löwen See more »Box Office
Budget:
$3,000,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
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(uncredited)
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
Performed by Michael Whiteacre at his party and heard in the background as well
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According to The New York Times, "several concessions to the censors and the box-office were made in adapting Irwin Shaw's bestseller The Young Lions to the screen." See more »Goofs
The same footage of the British camp in North Africa is used three times while the Germans await the sunrise. See more »Quotes
Capt. Hardenberg: The German army is invincible because it is an army that obeys orders. Any order. No matter how distasteful. It has no sentimentalists, no moralists, no individualists. You will have no future in it if you don't understand that. You may have no future at all if you oppose it. I trouble to tell you this because you have a fine record. You will be a creative soldier, once you get all this "thinking" knocked out of you.See more »
Soundtracks
"Blue Moon"(uncredited)
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
Performed by Michael Whiteacre at his party and heard in the background as well
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A long time ago, some time before the powers that be decided that movies should be made only to extricate money from children by catering to their base instincts and in so doing destroy our civility, the American Cinema was devoted to the art and craft of story telling. In these stories, life was often celebrated through the study of the character of the human heart.
In THE YOUNG LIONS, we experience masterful story writing in the screenplay by a man named Edward Anhalt who adapted it from a novel by Irwin Shaw. In this fine example of the final years of the Golden Age of Hollywood we see a study of character, ideas and humanity seen amidst the greatest conflict this Earth has ever known, WWII.
Here, we experience both the Americans and Europeans, including Germans. They are played as they really were, not as depicted by latter day directors such as Steven Spielberg and others who have drawn WWII Germans as silhouette, cartoon characters, all vile and evil. Here, they are shown as singular human beings with personalities, hopes and dreams really exactly like our own. The opposing forces are caught up in a madness that somehow swept across the face of this planet at a specific time, when really probed, for reasons quite unfathomable. This was also one of the peak film renderings of Marlon Brando, whom some feel is one of the finest actors ever to have graced the silver screen.
If you yearn for a fulfilling example of American Cinema at a time when it was a serious, respected industry, this is one for you to see.