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The Young Lions

Year:
Duration:
167 min
Genres:
Action | Drama | War
IMDB rate:
7.3
Director:
Edward Dmytryk
Awards:
Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 1 win & 4 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1958-04-02
Filming Locations: Berlin, Germany
Cast
Actor
Character
Marlon Brando
Lt. Christian Diestl
Montgomery Clift
Noah Ackerman
Dean Martin
Michael Whiteacre
Hope Lange
Hope Plowman
Barbara Rush
Margaret Freemantle
Maximilian Schell
Capt. Hardenberg
Dora Doll
Simone
Lee Van Cleef
1st Sgt. Rickett
Liliane Montevecchi
Françoise
Parley Baer
Sgt. Brandt
Arthur Franz
Lt. Green
Hal Baylor
Pvt. Burnecker
Richard Gardner
Pvt. Crowley
Herbert Rudley
Capt. Colclough
John Alderson
Cpl. Kraus (uncredited)
John Banner
German Town Mayor (uncredited)
Stephen Bekassy
German Major (uncredited)
Dagmar Biener
Minor Role (uncredited)
Paul Bradley
Draft Board Member (uncredited)
Joe Brooks
Minor Role (uncredited)
Julian Burton
Pvt. Brailsford (uncredited)
Robert Burton
Col. Mead (uncredited)
Wade Cagle
Lt. Emerson (uncredited)
Ann Codee
French Woman (uncredited)
Paul Comi
Pvt. Abbott (uncredited)
Ashley Cowan
Maier (uncredited)
David Dabov
Soldier (uncredited)
Carol Ann Daniels
Hatcheck Girl (uncredited)
Joan Douglas
Maid (uncredited)
Robert Ellenstein
Rabbi Joseph Silverstein (uncredited)
Harry Ellerbe
Draft Board Chairman (uncredited)
Milton Frome
Draft Board Physician (uncredited)
John Gabriel
Burn (uncredited)
Sam Gilman
Pvt. Faber (uncredited)
Norman Grabowski
Barracks Inspection Private (uncredited)
Joe Gray
Soldier (uncredited)
L.Q. Jones
Pvt. Donnelly (uncredited)
Stan Kamber
Acaro (uncredited)
Craig Karr
Draft Board Secretary (uncredited)
Kurt Katch
Camp Commandant (uncredited)
Kenner G. Kemp
Officer at Bar (uncredited)
Hubie Kerns
Minor Role (uncredited)
Nicholas King
Medic (uncredited)
Gil Lasky
Soldier (uncredited)
George Meader
Milkman (uncredited)
Gordon Mitchell
Minor Role (uncredited)
Clive Morgan
British Colonel (uncredited)
Alberto Morin
Bartender (uncredited)
Ann Paige
Minor Role (uncredited)
Christian Pasques
French Boy (uncredited)
Michael Pataki
Pvt. Hagstrom (uncredited)
Voltaire Perkins
Bus Terminal Café Counterman (uncredited)
Mary Pierce
Young French Girl (uncredited)
Art Reichle
Soldier (uncredited)
Otto Reichow
Bavarian (uncredited)
Edward Rickard
Mailman (uncredited)
Gene Roth
Bavarian Café Manager (uncredited)
G.F. Rowe
Messenger (uncredited)
Henry Rowland
Sergeant (uncredited)
Jeffrey Sayre
Drunk (uncredited)
Norbert Schiller
German Civilian with Town Mayor (uncredited)
Kendall Scott
Emerson (uncredited)
Michael Smith
Draft Board Member (uncredited)
Ann Stebbins
Brunette (uncredited)
Harvey Stephens
Brig. Gen. Sam Rockland (uncredited)
Vaughn Taylor
John Plowman (uncredited)
Alfred Tonkel
German Waiter (uncredited)
Ivan Triesault
German Colonel (uncredited)
Lee J. Winters
Private First Class (uncredited)
Doris Wiss
Nurse (uncredited)
Did you know?
Trivia
"The Young Lions" novel to which this film was based was it's author's Irwin Shaw's first novel and it was first published in 1949, about nine years before this film was made.
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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."
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Dean Martin was a close friend of Montgomery Clift. Martin was always grateful for the help Clift had given him while filming The Young Lions (1958) - Martin's first major dramatic role - and he would accompany him to parties after the rest of Hollywood had disowned him due to his increasing addictions to drugs and alcohol.
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Goofs
The note that Diestl writes to say goodbye to Francoise is in English, instead of either in French or German.
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At the conference of German officers in the desert, the senior German officer says that they were expecting a frontal attack from the Allies at any time. From the following stock footage it is apparent that they are referring to EL Alamein. However, the Germans were completely unaware of Allied plans and were taken completely by surprise.
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When Noah meets Hope at Michael's party she's wearing a low cut evening gown, but when they step out for a walk along the river, she's wearing a dress with a collar.
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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.
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Draft Board Physician: You know, for a man your age, you're in excellent health. How do you manage it?
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Capt. Hardenberg: [two Nazi officers, escaping on a motorcycle in the middle of the endless desert] Don't fall asleep, damn you. Talk! Talk to me!
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Faq
Q
In front of which building are Capt. Hardenberg and Lt. Diestl posing?
A
It is the Basilica of the Sacre-Coeur, in the Montmartre region of Paris.
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Photos from cast
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