Fritz Bauer Institut · Cinematography of the Holocaust
ID |
FBW001345 Fiction |
Country / Year |
USA, 1958 |
Original Title |
The Young Lions |
Other Title(s) |
Die jungen Löwen (German) |
Directed by |
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Produced by |
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY |
Staff |
Producer: Al Lichtman; Executive producer: Buddy Adler; Location manager: Ben Chapman (Unit Manager, Europe), Saul Wurtzel (Unit Manager, US); Dialoge direction: Walter Roberts; Assistent director: Ad Schaumer; Script: Edward Anhalt; Based on: Irwin Shaw (Roman); Camera: Joseph MacDonald; Assistent cameraman: Duke Callaghan; Special optical effects: L.B. Abbott; Editing: Dorothy Spencer; Sound: Alfred Bruzlin, Warren B. Delaplain, William D. Flick (als: Don Flick); Art direction: Lyle R. Wheeler, Addison Hehr; Technical consultant: Allison A. Conrad; Set decoration: Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss; Costumes: Adele Balkan, Charles LeMaire; Makeup: Ben Nye; Haidressing: Helen Turpin; Music: Hugo Friedhofer; Musical direction: Lionel Newman; Orchestration: Edward B. Powell; Songs: Burton Lane ("How About You?"); Lyrics: Ralph Freed ("How About You?") |
Cast |
Marlon Brando (Christian Diestl); Montgomery Clift (Noah Ackerman); Dean Martin (Michael Whiteacre); Hope Lange (Hope Plowman); Barbara Rush (Margaret Freemantle); May Britt (Gretchen Hardenberg); Maximilian Schell (Captain Hardenberg); Dora Doll (Simone); Lee Van Cleef (Sergeant Rickett); Liliane Montevecchi (Françoise); Parley Baer (Lieutenant Brandt, PK-Photographer); Arthur Franz (Lieutenant Green); Hal Baylor (Pvt. Burnecker); Richard Gardner (Pvt. Cowley); Herbert Rudley (Captain Colclough); John Alderson (Corporal Kraus); Sam Gilman (Pvt. Faber); L.Q. Jones (Pvt. Donnelly); Julian Burton (Pvt. Brailsford); Ashley Cowan (Maier); Vaughn Taylor (John Plowman); Gene Stutenroth (als: Gene Roth) (Cafe Manager); Milton Frome (Draft Board Doctor); Harry Ellerbe (Draft Board Chairman); Craig Karr (Draft Board Secretary); Michael Smith (Draft Board Member); George Meader (Milkman); Voltaire Perkins (Druggist); Ann Daniels (Hatcheck Girl); Alberto Morin (Bartender); Robert Burton (Colonel Mead); Ann Codee (French Woman); Mary Pierce (Young French Girl); Christian Pasques (French Boy); Alfred Tonkel (German Waiter); Doris Wiss (Nurse); John Gabriel (Bum, Patient in German Hospital); Stan Kamber (Pvt. Acaro); Ed Rickard (Mailman); Joan Douglas (Maid); Harvey Stephens (General Sam Rockland); Paul Comi (Pvt. Abbott); Michael Pataki (Pvt. Hagstrom); Stephan Bekassy (German Major); Ivan Triesault (German Colonel); Otto Reichow (Bavarian); Clive Morgan (British Colonel); Kurt Katch (Concentration Camp Commandant); Robert Ellenstein (Rabbi Joseph Silverson); John Banner (Mayor); Jeffrey Sayre (Drunk on Subway); Joe Brooks (Corporal); Henry Rowland (Sergeant); Nicholas King (Medic); Art Reichle (Soldier); David Dabov (Soldier); Lee Winter (Soldier); Norbert Schiller (Civilian); Kendall Scott (Emerson); Anne Stebbins (Brunette); Wade Cagle (Lt. Emerson); Hubie Kerns; Jacob Ben Ami; Ann Paige |
Length |
4571 m / 167'04'' |
Format |
35mm/sw/1:2,35 (Cinemascope) |
Dates |
- 17 Jun 1957-00 Oct 1957: Shooting period |
Remarks |
1. Laut The New York Times (03.03.1952) interessiert sich Fred Zinnemann für die Rechte an der Verfilmung des Best-Sellers "The Young Lions" und plant eine Verfilmung als Independent Producer und Regisseur. Laut The New York Times (23.01.1954) erwerben die Produzenten Jacques Braunstein und Robert Lord die Rechte an der Verfilmung und planen laut The New York Times (11.09.1955) den Film für United Artists zu produzieren. Produktionsunterlagen der Twentieth Century-Fox folgend (TCF Records of the Legal Department at the UCLA Arts - Special Collections Library) erwirbt das Studio im Dezember 1956 die Rechte von Braunstein. In der Twentieth Century-Fox Produced Scripts Collection (UCLA Arts - Special Collections Library) befindet sich eine undatierte Kopie von Shaws Drehbuch. Alle weiteren Twentieth Century-Fox Fassungen wurden von Edward Anhalt verfasst. |
Further Remarks |
- Tonsystem: Westrex Recording System |
Abstract |
1937. Margaret Freemantle spends the last day of her holiday in Bavaria with the ski instructor Christian Deistl. In the spring of 1940, Diestl arrives in France as a German lieutenant. In Paris the PK photographer, lieutenant Brandt, takes his picture together with the leader Hardenberg in front of the Sacre-Coeur. During a holiday in Berlin he meets Hardenberg`s wife who seduces him. Back in America, Margaret`s fiance, the Broadway star Michael Whiteacre, meets the shy confectionist Noah Ackermann at a medical examination for military service. At a party to which Michael invites him, Ackerman falls in love with Hope Plowman who he marries before his conscription. Michael is also called up. Ackerman, serving in the same unit as Michael learns the bitter truth that his enemies are not just the Germans, but also some of those in his own unit. Sergeant Rickett is a violent anti semetist and four of his comrades engage Noah in a brutal fight. In the meantime, Diestl and Hardenberg fight in Africa. A mine destroys Hardenberg`s face. Diestl comes away with a leg injury. After his convalescence he visits Hardenberg in Lazarett. On fullfilling his promise and delivering greetings from Hardenberg to his wife in Berlin, she coquettishly informs him that her husband has commited suicide. Diestl`s regiment is wipped out in France. The Us troops storm Germany. Upon the sight of a concentration camp, Diestl becomes desperate. In a forest he meets Ackerman and Whiteacre. He wants to surrender but is shot dead by Whiteacre. Ackerman returns home where his wife and children await him. |
Subject Terms |
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Distributor |
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY (initially) |
Bibliography |
- Shaw, Irwin: The Young Lions. New York, NY, 1948 |