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The Young Lions is a 1958 American epic war drama film directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, and Dean Martin. It was made in black-and-white and CinemaScope and was theatrically released by 20th Century-Fox. The film is based on the 1948 novel of the same name by Irwin Shaw.
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A notable distinction exists between something being “grand” and something being “bloated,” a contrast that is particularly evident in the larger-than-life epics Hollywood produced during the 1950s. Among these ambitious projects, *The Young Lions*, directed by Edward Dmytryk in 1958, stands out as a prime example of a film that, while striving for grandeur, ultimately succumbs to its own excesses. This war epic att…More
