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...Young Lions. Irwin Shaw's bestseller about World War II, clarified by an intelligent script and gifted Actors Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift (TIME, April...
...Europead elaborated out of the decisive events and determining attitudes of World War II. He missed the mark, but with the assistance of Director Edward Dmytryk and Scriptwriter Edward Anhalt. he has produced a broad and swiftly flowing film which carries on its narrative stream two performances-by Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift -of unusually deep draft...
Actually, the narrative, is divided into two streams. One rises in Germany, one in the U.S., and both run separately through the screenplay until they converge in the fatal conclusion. Brando, his hair bleached for the occasion, plays a sensitive German lieutenant who hates killing, but justifies it as the only way to bring lasting peace to Europe. He resists the attempts of his superior officer (Maximilian Schell) to make him "a creative soldier"; resists the military dictum that "when you become a soldier you contract for killing in all its forms"; resists the friend who tells him that despite...
...Brando's American antithesis, played by Actor Clift, is a shy young New York Jew. A simpler animal altogether than the German boy. he fights for survival and for his unit, asks no questions and gets no answers. Brave, natural, extraverted, he probably exemplifies what was best in the U.S. fighting man of World War II just as Brando speaks for what was best in the German soldier. As a matter of fact, the script is rather too strongly inclined to see the best in people and events. The war clouds are dark indeed, but somehow they usually turn...
M.C.A. has built its empire on a simple economic principle; it takes 10% on any contract it makes for its gold-plated clients. It gets 10% from movie stars such as Marilyn Monroe, Gregory Peck, Marlon Brando and Gary Grant; from playwrights such as Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and William (The Dark at the Top of the Stairs) Inge; and from novelists such as James (From Here to Eternity) Jones, Irving (Lust for Life) Stone. It owns or represents such TV shows as Wagon Train, Tales oj Wells Fargo, Jack Benny, Ozzie and Harriet, Alfred Hitchcock, Dragnet and This...