Movie Info

One of the most thoughtful films about World War II, this 1958 Edward Dmytryk (The Left Hand of God) drama, based on a novel by Irwin Shaw...(read more...) , tells parallel stories of two American soldiers (Montgomery Clift and Dean Martin) and one German officer (Marlon Brando), whose war experiences we follow until they intersect outside a concentration camp. Martin plays what he calls "a likable coward," Clift is intense as a Jewish GI, and Brando experiments with the limits of his part as a Nazi reevaluating his beliefs. Legend has it that Clift accused Brando of bleeding-heart excessiveness. Interestingly, the two Method actors share no scenes together. --Tom Keogh

Director: Edward Dmytryk

MPAA: G

Running Time: 167 min.

Release Date: Jun 01, 2001

Cast: Barbara Rush, Beatrice Berry, Chris Phillips, Dean Martin, Denyce Graves, Fred Newman, Hope Lange, Lee Van Cleef, Marlon Brando, Maximilian Schell, Montgomery Clift