"The machine guns will continue to rake the area for sixty seconds…" Actually it's thirty seconds as presented. (Absolutely not meant as a nitpick - just one example of the ways that movies play clever tricks on the audience with stretching and shortening time.)
The film was directed by Edward Dmytryk, one of the most astute film noir directors (Crossfire, Murder My Sweet, and Cornered) and who also made several notable war films, including the Cane Mutiny, Anzio, and Raintree County. He was also blacklisted and a member of the "Hollywood 10."
Excelente pelicula, muy buenas actuaciones; pero, que paso con el final ?, tantas horas expectando, para quedarnos con las ganas de saber que ocurre con los protagonistas ?asi, no canta mi gallo; preferable seria que la saquen o la borren.
Хороший фильм. Актуален и сейчас. Предательство и страх за свою жизнь, и наоборот бесстрашие и героизм.А главная мысль автора - жизнь человека обесценилась. Простая мирная жизнь, существование в мире и любви больше не нужны нам. Они не дают простора для амбиций и самореализации. Такая позиция по отношению к жизни страшна и антигуманна. Безразличие к убийству, ради завоевания - это и есть нацизм.
Last decent role Brando had until "The Godfather." Pity,he made some real gems in the 1950s - "The Men",Sayonara', "Guys and Dolls" "The Wild One". "Julius Caesar" to name a few. He was excellent,and more importantly,believable in this role.
"The Young Lions" is a good film in the scene early in the film when Marlon Brando tries to explain to Barbara Rush how class plays such an important part in German culture. However, the film surprisingly goofs badly early in the film. Right after the film's credits, we see "Bavaria---1938" and we see Brando and Rush skiing. Shortly after the scene, Rush---a naive Amercan on vacation--- expresses surprise that the Nazi movement was so alive in Bavaria, as opposed to Berlin. However, Hitler's movement was especially alive in the early days in heavily Catholic, heavily conservative Bavaria while Berlin was perceived as Germany's "sin city" by the Nazis. Too bad, because the film has a lot good points---especially the acting of Brando, Rush, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin and Hope Lange--- but the opening sequence keeps it from being a great film for me.
The motorcycle retreat scene and bitter, accusatory, but sprinkled with sarcastic contempt dialogue between Brando and Schell retreating helter-skelter after their defeat at El Alamein on a motorcycle across the desert that follows later is one of the best scenes as well.
Trust me if the British saw some german soldiers relaxing in the sun and some Pommy commandos saw the opportunity was right- they would do the same thats war no good or bad guys just winners or losers. Wounded do give information- the British knew this too. PoWs are not always the first option though information gathering might...
Although Dean Martin didn't have the long down period that Sinatra had when Sinatra did From Here to Eternity, this was Martin's "comeback" movie after his split with Jerry Lewis. Excellent movie.
I appreciate that this scene portrays a German soldier not wanting to commit war crimes (albeit a necessary evil in this particular instance) instead of just mindlessly obeying like a robot.
Actually, it would have been fairly odd for British troops to be up that late in the morning without movement. Had they been told to hold that position, they would have had the high ground (entrenched), instead of a valley to be fired down into. And, of course, with the high ground, they would have fired down at the Germans, under the rising sun.
It's odd in a way. The British empire and the Axis powers knocking the shit out of each other in the desert. All to reach the oil fields of Iraq and Iran and Saudi Arabia. Not much has changed apart from the instruments and the performers I suppose.
Are you sure about that? Oil wasn't discovered in Saudi Arabia until 1938 and it was discovered by Americans on (at the time) American owned land. England was getting bombed heavily by the Germans during the time period this film portrays and were none too happy about it. Prior to that, England had no interest in entering the war and followed a policy of appeasement of the Germans... (Many in the British nobility and even Royal Family were in fact great admirers of the Nazis and their aims - of course until London was reduced to rubble).
best film about ww2 ever. Hugo Friedhofer 's magnificent music score is one of the best for any movie ever ...such talent all around...thanks for this classic clip from a very classic film!
Friedhofer also did the emotional and inspirational score for the multi-Oscar-winning film The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). One of the greatest - yet perhaps most unappreciated - composers in cinema history -
My favorite part of the real deal was Dresden. As Bomber Harris said...Germany has sown the wind. Now she will reap the whirlwind. Dresden was a glorious payback.
If you know anything about the history of the Afrika Korps, this scene would have never happened. Love how even in 1958 Hollywood was still producing propaganda and distorting the facts of the "Real" war to get the attention of the audience and revise history.
Foremost, it had to be entertaining to get many viewers. I think those, who put their money into the productions of film, were more interested in profit than in propaganda...
Hollywood then, as now, was and is a largely Jewish preserve. They had no interest in presenting a real picture of the war. People like Rommel and units like the Afrika Korps might confuse their propaganda.
Jeff Fortais That's correct. The only German units who did commit these atrocities were Waffen S.S combat soldiers & Gestapo members, who killed British soldiers who were considered 'Kommando's under Hitlers 'Kommando order'. Troops included Royal Marine Commandos, SBS ( Cockleshell Heroes at Dieppe) & SAS soldiers. Afrika Korps soldiers never did murder soldiers like this
Funny I read the book many years ago and I could have sworn it was an American platoon that gets wiped out I don't remember any British getting massacred I must be remembering it wrong there's no way Hollywood would substitute British for Americans getting an ass kicking.
Irwin Shaw, the book's author, got up close and personal with war as an assistant to Hollywood director George Stevens in the Army Photographic Unit. Stevens covered the fighting all over Europe following the D-Day landings, the liberation of Paris, and the liberation of concentration camps like Dachau and Buchenwald. So the movie's concentration camp scene with Brando is inspired by Shaw's own experience.
+Ralf Rath The Afrika Korps, unlike their compatriots in the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front, mostly a fought a clean war and by the rules, always adhering to the Geneva Convention. Once in a while though, even though there were no Waffen-SS troops in North Africa, The Afrika Korps had among their ranks a few Nazi fanatics here and there, and they were NOT popular among the veteran German troops and professional officers.
+Romansilvercoin British SAS slit German throats in the Middle of the Night too you know. The team was so effective and secretive that Field Marshal Rommel dubbed Stirling the "Phantom Major" Otto Skorzeny lost and David Stirling won. Remember back then it was 'total war' you would not seriously think the British would have fired back given the chance or protected their flanks better. However one Monty got his head together the Africa Corps ran out of supplies, air support, men and obvious end just like in the movie with the lone motorcycle. Sgt Steiner from a Cross of Iron was a more accurate portrayal.
Drey Warmheart I read an excerpt from the book ...Christian wasn’t so nice. He killed a helpless American hanging from a tree and called him ‘Samy’ mockingly...
Brice carter Seriously, the novel should be required reading at West Point. In the desert ambush scene, the captain waits, not only till the rising sun is in the eyes of the British soldiers but he waits a few MORE minutes till half of them are having their morning shave and constitutional. Only then he cuts loose.
@@LeeRaldar Correction Actually the novels depicts both British and american But the film only does the british one Obviously restrictions on movie time Also in novel christian turns in Brandt And his lover to Gestapo The novel depicts him in a harsher mood!
Actually, it would have been fairly odd for British troops to be up that late in the morning without movement. Had they been told to hold that position, they would have had the high ground (entrenched), instead of a valley to be fired down into. And, of course, with the high ground, they would have fired down at the Germans, under the rising sun.
This is very well made, incredible for a 1958 movie ...
"The machine guns will continue to rake the area for sixty seconds…" Actually it's thirty seconds as presented. (Absolutely not meant as a nitpick - just one example of the ways that movies play clever tricks on the audience with stretching and shortening time.)
And it would have meant to change the MG34 barrel at least three times :)
This is a good war movie even by today's standards
One Of The Most Skillfully Crafted World War II Films Ever Made - Brando & Schell Were Mesmerizing .
The film was directed by Edward Dmytryk, one of the most astute film noir directors (Crossfire, Murder My Sweet, and Cornered) and who also made several notable war films, including the Cane Mutiny, Anzio, and Raintree County. He was also blacklisted and a member of the "Hollywood 10."
Funny in the book it’s an American unit that gets ambushed and destroyed.
2:49 and 3:34 : What is the mortar section chief yelling here?
sounds like "left ten (meters?)" and "back ten"
Perfectly possible.
I thought it was "Siebzehn!" and "Sechszehn!", seventeen and sixteen in german, with a bad english dialect. :-)
Excelente pelicula, muy buenas actuaciones; pero, que paso con el final ?, tantas horas expectando, para quedarnos con las ganas de saber que ocurre con los protagonistas ?asi, no canta mi gallo; preferable seria que la saquen o la borren.
Хороший фильм. Актуален и сейчас. Предательство и страх за свою жизнь, и наоборот бесстрашие и героизм.А главная мысль автора - жизнь человека обесценилась. Простая мирная жизнь, существование в мире и любви больше не нужны нам. Они не дают простора для амбиций и самореализации. Такая позиция по отношению к жизни страшна и антигуманна. Безразличие к убийству, ради завоевания - это и есть нацизм.
R.I.P. Maximillian Schell, thank you for some memorable performances.
Last decent role Brando had until "The Godfather." Pity,he made some real gems in the 1950s - "The Men",Sayonara', "Guys and Dolls" "The Wild One". "Julius Caesar" to name a few.
He was excellent,and more importantly,believable in this role.
Funny how Schell spoke 0 world of English then and had to learn his lines phonetically. He communicated With Brando in French.
"The Young Lions" is a good film in the scene early in the film when Marlon Brando tries to explain to Barbara Rush how class plays such an important part in German culture. However, the film surprisingly goofs badly early in the film. Right after the film's credits, we see "Bavaria---1938" and we see Brando and Rush skiing. Shortly after the scene, Rush---a naive Amercan on vacation--- expresses surprise that the Nazi movement was so alive in Bavaria, as opposed to Berlin. However, Hitler's movement was especially alive in the early days in heavily Catholic, heavily conservative Bavaria while Berlin was perceived as Germany's "sin city" by the Nazis. Too bad, because the film has a lot good points---especially the acting of Brando, Rush, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin and Hope Lange--- but the opening sequence keeps it from being a great film for me.
perfect acting from brando..
The motorcycle retreat scene and bitter, accusatory, but sprinkled with sarcastic contempt dialogue between Brando and Schell retreating helter-skelter after their defeat at El Alamein on a motorcycle across the desert that follows later is one of the best scenes as well.
Trust me if the British saw some german soldiers relaxing in the sun and some Pommy commandos saw the opportunity was right- they would do the same thats war no good or bad guys just winners or losers. Wounded do give information- the British knew this too. PoWs are not always the first option
though information gathering might...
Throw in a period, dude. That's like three sentences in one.
And then the "Rat Patrol" shows up and spoils all their plans....
Although Dean Martin didn't have the long down period that Sinatra had when Sinatra did From Here to Eternity, this was Martin's "comeback" movie after his split with Jerry Lewis. Excellent movie.
Those are some cool shades for 1941 :D
I appreciate that this scene portrays a German soldier not wanting to commit war crimes (albeit a necessary evil in this particular instance) instead of just mindlessly obeying like a robot.
Behind the British Lines in North Africa, this one of my favorites scenes
from The Young Lions.
Their Afrika Korps caps and sunglasses are not correct, the Germans really didn't wear that!
I like old war movies.
i saw this in 58 with TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON , the acting was so good i never did recognize Brando in the second feature
Great Montgomery clift
You have to give it to the Afrika Korps, one sharp ambush.
smart tactic
Actually, it would have been fairly odd for British troops to be up that late in the morning without movement. Had they been told to hold that position, they would have had the high ground (entrenched), instead of a valley to be fired down into. And, of course, with the high ground, they would have fired down at the Germans, under the rising sun.
They lit them up …
The scene with the blinded British soldier is gut-wrenching.
It's odd in a way. The British empire and the Axis powers knocking the shit out of each other in the desert. All to reach the oil fields of Iraq and Iran and Saudi Arabia. Not much has changed apart from the instruments and the performers I suppose.
Are you sure about that? Oil wasn't discovered in Saudi Arabia until 1938 and it was discovered by Americans on (at the time) American owned land. England was getting bombed heavily by the Germans during the time period this film portrays and were none too happy about it. Prior to that, England had no interest in entering the war and followed a policy of appeasement of the Germans... (Many in the British nobility and even Royal Family were in fact great admirers of the Nazis and their aims - of course until London was reduced to rubble).
best film about ww2 ever. Hugo Friedhofer 's magnificent music score is one of the best for any movie ever ...such talent all around...thanks for this classic clip from a very classic film!
''THE YOUNG LIONS''...out on blu-ray next month!
Friedhofer also did the emotional and inspirational score for the multi-Oscar-winning film The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). One of the greatest - yet perhaps most unappreciated - composers in cinema history -
My favorite part of the Young Lions "Behind the British Lines in North Africa.
Fucktard. Krauts still lost the war.
Too bad the Brits didn't have a drone -- they might have spotted the Krauts !
@@AlaskaErik Swine.
@@tss77 Fucktard Hitlerite. You bastards still lost the war and nothing will ever change that.
My favorite part of the real deal was Dresden. As Bomber Harris said...Germany has sown the wind. Now she will reap the whirlwind. Dresden was a glorious payback.
Maximillian Schell was so handsome! And he was an excellent actor! RIP!
funny he does the same scene "shoot him, i order you to shoot him" again in "Cross of Iron".
ODDBALL SOK That type of ruthlessness was a rarity in the Afrika korps
ruthiehenshallfan99 one of the best
nah. i enjoyed tobruk with the A team leader. Some pretty good acting, despite rock hudson. The british actor was tops. ::Leave it to an Arab to argue
If I were the brit commander I would have scouts on the German hill
Agreed, somebody would have been spending the night up there !
Anyone would know that.
Absolutely.
Too bad the Brits didn't have drones back in those days !
Странно, а почему англичане не выставили по окружности дозоры?
Maximilian Schell looks like Guy Pearce.
of coldplay?
Deutschland live for ever
I'm not sure that even far beyond the lines a British force didn't put out pickets during wartime. That was really asking for it.
Exactly.
If you know anything about the history of the Afrika Korps, this scene would have never happened. Love how even in 1958 Hollywood was still producing propaganda and distorting the facts of the "Real" war to get the attention of the audience and revise history.
Foremost, it had to be entertaining to get many viewers. I think those, who put their money into the productions of film, were more interested in profit than in propaganda...
Hollywood then, as now, was and is a largely Jewish preserve. They had no interest in presenting a real picture of the war. People like Rommel and units like the Afrika Korps might confuse their propaganda.
Perhaps we should project the German view of war, with them winning it instead?
Jeff Fortais That's correct. The only German units who did commit these atrocities were Waffen S.S combat soldiers & Gestapo members, who killed British soldiers who were considered 'Kommando's under Hitlers 'Kommando order'. Troops included Royal Marine Commandos, SBS ( Cockleshell Heroes at Dieppe) & SAS soldiers. Afrika Korps soldiers never did murder soldiers like this
Funny I read the book many years ago and I could have sworn it was an American platoon that gets wiped out I don't remember any British getting massacred I must be remembering it wrong there's no way Hollywood would substitute British for Americans getting an ass kicking.
the book was great. you cannot stop reading it.
It's a good scene but for one thing the brits always stand to at sun up and sun down in a defensive position
So you are still reading it?
Irwin Shaw, the book's author, got up close and personal with war as an assistant to Hollywood director George Stevens in the Army Photographic Unit. Stevens covered the fighting all over Europe following the D-Day landings, the liberation of Paris, and the liberation of concentration camps like Dachau and Buchenwald. So the movie's concentration camp scene with Brando is inspired by Shaw's own experience.
Marlon Brando did his best to speak with a German accent
Was not a good effort
Sunglasses are really cool
It iz grrreat to zee ze tommie get their - how do you say it 'Cumuppanzes'..
Or the Americans in Vietnam
are you a nazi
yes....
But there is always the question whether this german soldiers were soldiers of monsters of their devil called Hitler?
+Ralf Rath The Afrika Korps, unlike their compatriots in the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front, mostly a fought a clean war and by the rules, always adhering to the Geneva Convention. Once in a while though, even though there were no Waffen-SS troops in North Africa, The Afrika Korps had among their ranks a few Nazi fanatics here and there, and they were NOT popular among the veteran German troops and professional officers.
+Romansilvercoin British SAS slit German throats in the Middle of the Night too you know.
The team was so effective and secretive that Field Marshal Rommel dubbed Stirling the "Phantom Major"
Otto Skorzeny lost and David Stirling won. Remember back then it was 'total war'
you would not seriously think the British would have fired back given the chance
or protected their flanks better. However one Monty got his head together
the Africa Corps ran out of supplies, air support, men and obvious end
just like in the movie with the lone motorcycle. Sgt Steiner from a Cross
of Iron was a more accurate portrayal.
That moment shows that, before, Christian was humane.
Drey Warmheart I read an excerpt from the book ...Christian wasn’t so nice. He killed a helpless American hanging from a tree and called him ‘Samy’ mockingly...
Behind the British Lines in North Africa, My favorite part of the Movie.
Damn
Great lion vid, looking forward to watching more...
Hahaha, yeah.. my dad & i watched this in 1998 but I never finished it till now 2014 lol
Brice carter In the novel, the desert war was much more intense. Small unit tactics. et al
pinz2022 ahah. Ikr ;)
Brice carter Seriously, the novel should be required reading at West Point. In the desert ambush scene, the captain waits, not only till the rising sun is in the eyes of the British soldiers but he waits a few MORE minutes till half of them are having their morning shave and constitutional. Only then he cuts loose.
day of the lead for the eternal anglo
Anti british scene
In the novel it's an american unit which cops it!
Had the Americans even joined WW2 at that stage, late 1941?
@@LeeRaldar
Correction
Actually the novels depicts both
British and american
But the film only does the british one
Obviously restrictions on movie time
Also in novel christian turns in Brandt
And his lover to Gestapo
The novel depicts him in a harsher mood!
@@LeeRaldar Ben Afleck did it in Pearl Harboort
Excellent movie. I liked the location shots filmed in Brooklyn.
Lies!
+KnutHenningKunze Colonel Vinnavin
Nice nop
Brilliant tactical move.
Holding attack position behind the rising sun, blinding the opponent.
Actually, it would have been fairly odd for British troops to be up that late in the morning without movement. Had they been told to hold that position, they would have had the high ground (entrenched), instead of a valley to be fired down into. And, of course, with the high ground, they would have fired down at the Germans, under the rising sun.
@@dwightstewart7181
The ground commander of the annihilated troops do not know his job how to win battles.
He did not even post a lookout?
@@robertgabuna355 .. You mean the writers didn't write that into the movie script. As I said, this was not typical of combat unit.
"Beware the Hun in the sun." British aviation saying from World War 1 -