The Young Lions (film)


The Young Lions is a 1958 American CinemaScope war drama film directed by Edward Dmytryk, based upon the 1948 novel of the same name by Irwin Shaw, and starring Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, and Dean Martin.

Michael Whiteacre Dean Martin and Noah Ackerman Montgomery Clift befriend each other during their U.S. Army draft physical examination and attend basic training together.They are then stationed in London. Michael is in show business and romantically involved with socialite Margaret Freemantle Barbara Rush who, coincidentally, in 1938 dated Christian in the Bavarian Alps where she spent her skiing vacation. She was upset by his Nazi beliefs and deserted him on New Years Eve to return to Michael.Noah, who is Jewish and employed as a junior department store clerk, attends a party Michael throws, where he meets Hope Plowman Hope Lange. She falls in love with him and introduces her fianc to her provincial father, who doesnt like Jews but has never met one. After a chat with Noah, the father approves of the marriage. ........

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