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The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.
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8.1K
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- Director
- Writers
- Edward Anhalt(screenplay)
- Irwin Shaw(novel)
- Stars
Top credits
- Director
- Writers
- Edward Anhalt(screenplay)
- Irwin Shaw(novel)
- Stars
- Nominated for 3 Oscars
- 1 win & 7 nominations total
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John Alderson
- Cpl. Krausas Cpl. Kraus
- (uncredited)
John Banner
- German Town Mayoras German Town Mayor
- (uncredited)
Stephen Bekassy
- German Majoras German Major
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Edward Anhalt(screenplay)
- Irwin Shaw(novel)
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- All cast & crew
Storyline
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. —Mattias Thuresson
- Taglines
- 20th CENTURY-FOX PRESENTS ALL THE DAYS AND NIGHTS OF the Young Lions (original print ad - mostly caps)
- Genres
- Certificate
- Approved
- Parents guide
Did you know
- TriviaMontgomery Clift was widely felt to look too old and too unhealthy to be an A1 soldier.
- GoofsEarly in the movie, Marlon Brando's character is riding in some sort of staff car. The car is right-hand drive; the Germans did not use right-hand drive. However, the staff car is a French-made Laffly V15T, which is, indeed, right-hand drive and was used by the French Army in WWII. The vehicle was probably captured from the French Army.
- 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.
- ConnectionsFeatured in V.I.P.-Schaukel: Episode #8.2 (1978)
Top review
One of Brando's best performances in an excellent parallel-narratives picture which shows us the human side of war.
The Young Lions sticks to its aim of showing us the human experience of war... Though it more often than not does this in a way which also filled the studio's quota of love scenes.
For a war picture, in fact, there are more love scenes than war scenes! In the first hour, you'd think you were in the wrong movie!
BRANDO FANS ALERT: This is one of his better performances, even one of his best i'd say.
Be warned: the picture is sort of episodic, and bounces between the germans and the americans every twenty minutes, developing parallel narratives. It can seem fairly uneven, for that reason.
How did Monty and Dean manage to be friends before the war and be drafted into the exact same platoon? Magic.
8/10.
For a war picture, in fact, there are more love scenes than war scenes! In the first hour, you'd think you were in the wrong movie!
BRANDO FANS ALERT: This is one of his better performances, even one of his best i'd say.
Be warned: the picture is sort of episodic, and bounces between the germans and the americans every twenty minutes, developing parallel narratives. It can seem fairly uneven, for that reason.
How did Monty and Dean manage to be friends before the war and be drafted into the exact same platoon? Magic.
8/10.
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- Ben_Cheshire
- Jul 18, 2004
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Box office
- Budget
- $3,550,000 (estimated)
- Runtime2 hours 47 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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