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Edward Dmytryk

Marlon Brando

Lt. Christian Diestl

Montgomery Clift

Noah Ackerman

Dean Martin

Michael Whiteacre

Hope Plowman

Barbara Rush

Margaret Freemantle

The Young Lions

The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII. The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII. The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.

Edward Dmytryk
Edward Anhalt
Marlon Brando
Montgomery Clift
Dean Martin
84 User reviews
30 Critic reviews
1 win & 7 nominations total

Lt. Christian Diestl

Noah Ackerman

Michael Whiteacre

Hope Plowman

Margaret Freemantle

Gretchen Hardenberg

Capt. Hardenberg

1st Sgt. Rickett

Sgt. Brandt

Pvt. Burnecker
Pvt. Crowley

Capt. Colclough
(uncredited)

German Town Mayor

German Major
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Trivia During filming, Montgomery Clift called Marlon Brando a slob and commented that he was using only about one third of his talent.
Goofs Early in the movie, Marlon Brando's character is riding in some sort of staff car. The car is right-hand drive; the Germans did not use right-hand drive. However, the staff car is a French-made Laffly V15T, which is, indeed, right-hand drive and was used by the French Army in WWII. The vehicle was probably captured from the French Army.

Michael Whiteacre : You want me to get shot. Look, I've read all the books. I know that in 10 years we'll be bosom friends with the Germans and the Japanese. Then I'll be pretty annoyed that I was killed.

Connections Featured in V.I.P.-Schaukel: Episode #8.2 (1978)
Soundtracks The Blue Danube (uncredited) Music by Johann Strauss Heard at the party in Bavaria

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April 2, 1958 (United States)
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Marlon Brando (Lt. Christian Diestl) Montgomery Clift (Noah Ackerman) Dean Martin (Michael Whiteacre) Hope Lange (Hope Plowman) Barbara Rush (Margaret Freemantle) May Britt (Gretchen Hardenberg) Maximilian Schell (Capt. Hardenberg) Dora Doll (Simone) Lee Van Cleef (1st Sgt. Rickett) Liliane Montevecchi (Françoise)

Edward Dmytryk

The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.

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The Young Lions Review

02 Apr 1958

167 minutes

Young Lions, The

Based on the fat Irwin Shaw novel, this is WWI I as seen through the eyes of three of its combatants fighting at the front and romancing on leave: disillusioned Nazi-with-a-h eart Marlon Brando, Jewish-American loner Montgomery Clift and easy-going ex-Broadway entertainer Dean Martin.

Wide-ranging, bloated and heavy on morals and coincidence (Brando and Martin share a girlfriend and later meet up on the battlefield), this 1957 epic still has a standout performance from Brando (sympathetic rather than the monster of the book) and some excellent music and photography.

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Review by Michael Betzold

An ambitious anti-war movie that combines politics, romance, nationalism, and morality, The Young Lions was a distinctive entry in the post-World War II re-examination of Hitler's legacy. Released in 1958, it was one of the few important movies from that era that questioned conventional attitudes about the war. Adapted from Irwin Shaw's best-selling novel, the would-be-epic was daring enough to disturb censors. In his first attempt at a German accent, Marlon Brando continued his image-smashing roles by portraying a disillusioned Nazi officer. In his first dramatic role, comedian Dean Martin also confounded expectations. Montgomery Clift played an American Jewish soldier who fights anti-Semitism on all fronts. The rambling plot includes romantic entanglements for all the principals, but it manages to maintain a challenging edge. Unsettling and brooding, the drama was directed by Edward Dmytryk from a screenplay by Edward Anhalt.

"We waste our money so you don't have to."

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Movie Review

The young lions.

US Release Date: 04-02-1958

Directed by: Edward Dmytryk

Starring ▸ ▾

Marlon Brando , as
Lt. Christian Diestl
Montgomery Clift , as
Noah Ackerman
Dean Martin , as
Michael Whiteacre
Hope Lange , as
Hope Plowman
Barbara Rush , as
Margaret Freemantle
May Britt , as
Gretchen Hardenberg
Maximilian Schell , as
Capt. Hardenberg
Dora Doll , as
Lee Van Cleef , as
1st Sgt. Rickett
Liliane Montevecchi , as
Parley Baer , as
Sgt. Brandt
Arthur Franz , as
Hal Baylor , as
Pvt. Burnecker
Richard Gardner , as
Pvt. Crowley
Herbert Rudley as
Capt. Colclough

Marlon Brando in The Young Lions .

The Young Lions is an epic story of World War II that focuses on the lives of three soldiers, one German and two Americans. Based on the best selling novel of the same name by Irwin Shaw, it feels like a transitionary WWII film in that it combines the heroism of earlier war films with a distinctively anti-war message of the war movies to come in the decades ahead.

Marlon Brando, Montogmery Clift and Dean Martin all star, although Brando only has one scene with the other two actors. All three of the stars seem too old for their characters, particularly Clift, but are talented enough to make it work. Brando, whose dyed blonde hair is shocking to see at first, steals the movie, despite a rather cliched German accent. His sympathetic Nazi character is ahead of its time and caused some controversy when the film was released, partly because it was a departure from the character in the original novel. Both Clift and Dean are also quite good. For Martin, this was the movie that helped prove he could have a serious career without his longtime partner Jerry Lewis, whom he'd broken up with just two years previously. Clift, looking older than his years and extremely underweight, still proves that he was one of the finest actors of his generation.

The scope of the film is quite large. It starts shortly before the war begins and ends with the American liberation of a concentration camp in the final days of the war. It tells the story of the war from three perspectives. We see Christian Diestl (Brando) go from patriotic and idealistic young German, to a jaded and disillusioned one who has struggled to maintain his principles throughout the war. On the American side we have Broadway showman, Michael Whiteacre (Martin), as a reluctant soldier who does his best to pull strings to stay out of the war, but with only partial success. Then we have Noah Ackerman (Clift), a young Jewish man who finds love before being sent off to war where he discovers that bullies and anti-semites aren't exclusively German. Whiteacre and Ackerman meet in New York City before the war and end up in the same unit, but they don't encounter Diestl until the film's climax.

Although shot in Cinemascope, the movie was filmed in black & white. While that medium can create a certain mood, it's a pity here given the scope of the film. Many of the scenes were filmed on location in France, Germany and in the desert. They could have been shown off much more if it had been shot in color. It's still a very good film, but it feels like a wasted opportunity.

With a running time of over 2 and half hours, the movie does require some patience. The pacing could have been sped up, particularly in the scenes before the war. They are great for building up character but in terms of narrative they do little to advance the plot. Having said that however, since those scenes are included, it feels as if a scene is missing at the end of the film where we could have seen the romantic resolution that is set up for one of the characters.

Compared to the more straightforward, patriotic WWII films of the 1940s and early 50s, The Young Lions stands out. It shows heroism and honor on both sides of the conflict as well as sadism and cruelty. It requires a commitment to sit through its full length, but thanks in large part to its three leads, it's worth the time.

Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, and Dean Martin talk during a break in filming The Young Lions .

A great cast, fine direction, inspired Oscar nominated black & white cinematography, and a sweeping Oscar nominated score all combine to make The Young Lions a nearly great war movie. I agree with Scott that several early scenes could have been trimmed. A bit too much time is spent showing the romantic lives of the three main soldiers. There are consecutive scenes where each of them is shown in a romantic situation with a woman. In all three scenes the woman gets angry with the man but winds up kissing him.

Edward Dmytryk brings an excitement to the battle scenes. They are quite realistic, especially for the time. He manages to keep the story personal while never allowing the audience the chance to lose sight of the larger conflict. I have not read Irwin Shaw's novel but I do know that the outcome of the war was altered from page to screen for one of the main characters. It makes for a happier, if not more emotionally powerful, resolution.

Brando gives a great performance as Christian Diestl (an intentionally symbolic first name). I never saw him as sympathetic. Sure he becomes increasingly conflicted about performing his duty when all around him he sees proof of the worsening evil of the Nazi regime. He may have been an idealistic young soldier but he enlisted in the German army with his eyes open. The scene where an anguished Christian smashes his rifle in despair seems a bit contrived. From what I've read his fate in the novel seems more truthful. Brando himself wanted to make him sympathetic. Apparently this caused Monty Clift to quip that if Marlon tried to die at the end of the picture with his arms outstretched like Christ on the cross, he would walk off the set.

Monty Clift's Ackerman reminded me of his character Prewitt in From Here to Eternity . Both are outsiders who get bullied in their outfit and both men are forced to fight other Americans. Ackerman is far less cynical and not the loner Prewitt was. As Scott mentioned, Young Lions , like Eternity had done 4 years earlier, shows a more complex view of war than those flag-waving Hollywood war pictures of the 1940s. One reason Clift looks older here is because of a near fatal car accident that left half his face partially paralyzed. He would never be the same man again. His already notorious drinking would only increase and he would be dead before the age of 50.

Dean Martin has the smallest role of the three stars but he does himself proud. Although Whiteacre's eleventh hour switch to heroism can be seen coming from miles away, it is still satisfying when it happens. He gets one of the movie's best lines, although it's unlikely that a soldier during the war would have said it. “Look, I've read all the books. I know that in 10 years we'll be bosom friends with the Germans and the Japanese. Then I'll be pretty annoyed that I was killed.”

My brother Scott has often said that it's better to see the movie adaptation of a great novel before reading the book. That way when you do read the book you won't be disappointed by everything they left out. The sign of a good movie is if it makes you want to read the original source material. Watching The Young Lions has made me eager to read Irwin Shaw's 1949 novel.

Maximilian Schell and Marlon Brando in The Young Lions

As The Young Lions is such a long film, there is much that can be said about it. I guess my most glaring disparity from my brother’s reviews is that I thought the cast was mostly miscast. Scott mentioned Marlon Brando’s clichéd accent, so I will start there. The role of Christian should not have even been played by Brando. Sure, the Godfather of method acting does everything that is necessary, except one important thing; he does not speak German.

This would not have been a problem had the language barrier never been brought up. Look at the scene where Brando is on a double date with a French girl. He says a few words in French to her and then apologizes in English for that being the extent of his knowledge of the French language. At no point is it ever brought up that they are all speaking in English with accents. Look at The Longest Day (1962). The Germans speak in German and the French speak French.

Although Brando was a much bigger box office name, Maximillian Schell should have played the part of Christian. He is German and thus speaks the language fluently. Also, Irwin Shaw makes a point to mention in the novel that Christian is not even a blonde. Early in the book his photographer friend says that he would make a better subject for a propaganda photo if he were more Aryan looking. Schell has brown hair. Brando is playing a walking, talking stereotype, who when faced with the reality of war begins to question the world around him.

It is a nice idea, but I never completely bought it. It is like what Patrick wrote about Dean Martin’s prophetic line, these characters sometimes act as if they know the outcome of the war. Returning to the double date scene, Brando’s intended date says she is reluctant to be with a Nazi because she does not want to get her head shaved for collaborating with the enemy. That in fact happened to women who did but not until after the Germans were driven out at the end of the war.

To chime in about Montgomery Clift’s look, I found them horribly distracting. He was 38 years old and easily looked 48. This is called The Young Lions after all. With his ever sad, distorted face and skinny physique I kept thinking he looked like a junky desperately looking for a fix. He should have played Hope Lange’s father or the holocaust surviving rabbi.

Dean Martin makes the perfect Broadway producer, schmoozer and womanizer. Putting Martin in a party scene with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in another is like finding animals in a zoo. He is in his element. That however, is as good as his acting gets. After he joins the military, they should have trimmed his hair military style, instead of leaving it normal. All of the other men in the barracks have messed up hair as men of hard work or war would, while Martin never lets a hair fall out of place. Thus we never even begin to think of him as anything but a movie star pretending to be a soldier. Even during the action scenes he is nothing more than a pretty boy with a straight face. Brando, who was a truly fearless actor, should have played his part.

I agree with my brothers on the length and pace of the film. So much of the earlier scenes could have been trimmed but there are many great moments. I like the contrasting scenes between Brando's two visits to Schell's wife. In the first one there are children playng in a very nice neighborhood. On his second visit the buildings are mostly detroyed and the only child in sight is missing a leg.

It picks up as it goes on and all of the war scenes are excitingly brilliant. The final war scene is particularly so and is the payoff for the story. If it was not for the photo in Patrick’s review I would not even be sure that the three main actors ever met. Scott wrote that they share a scene at the end but that is not completely true as you never see all three of them together in one frame.

That one scene though, is extremely powerful. How many war movies have we watched where one soldier kills another, or several, and then moves on without him or us giving it a second thought? We never stop to think about the life that was just ended. All we know is that an enemy combatant has been killed and the shooter has survived another encounter. Here we have a soldier that kills an enemy and for a few seconds goes through a few emotions such as fear and perhaps regret before moving on. In other films we would not have thought twice about that death, but here we have come to know this person and his death has more meaning to us. Under different circumstances they could have talked and things would have turned out differently. After all, we learned earlier in the film that the German speaks perfect English.

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The young lions.

Directed by Edward Dmytryk

Irwin Shaw's monumental best-seller

The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.

Marlon Brando Montgomery Clift Dean Martin Hope Lange Barbara Rush May Britt Maximilian Schell Dora Doll Lee Van Cleef Liliane Montevecchi Parley Baer Arthur Franz Hal Baylor Richard Gardner Herbert Rudley Michael Smith Paul Comi John Alderson John Banner Milton Frome Sam Gilman L.Q. Jones Alberto Morin Norbert Schiller Harvey Stephens Stephen Bekassy Dagmar Biener Paul Bradley Joe Brooks Show All… Julian Burton Robert Burton Wade Cagle Ann Codee Bud Cokes Ashley Cowan David Dabov Ann Daniels Joan Douglas Larry Duran Robert Ellenstein Harry Ellerbe Norman Grabowski Joe Gray Stan Kamber Craig Karr Kurt Katch Kenner G. Kemp Hubie Kerns Nicholas King Gil Lasky Gustave Lax George Meader Gordon Mitchell Clive Morgan Monty O'Grady Ann Paige Christian Pasques Michael Pataki Voltaire Perkins Mary Pierce Art Reichle Otto Reichow Edward Rickard Gene Roth Gerald Rowe Henry Rowland Jeffrey Sayre Kendall Scott Ann Stebbins Vaughn Taylor Alfred Tonkel Ivan Triesault Blaine Turner Lee J. Winters Doris Wiss

Director Director

Edward Dmytryk

Producers Producers

Al Lichtman Ben Chapman

Writer Writer

Edward Anhalt

Original Writer Original Writer

Editor editor.

Dorothy Spencer

Cinematography Cinematography

Joseph MacDonald

Assistant Director Asst. Director

Ad Schaumer

Art Direction Art Direction

Addison Hehr Lyle R. Wheeler

Set Decoration Set Decoration

Walter M. Scott Stuart A. Reiss

Visual Effects Visual Effects

L.B. Abbott

Stunts Stunts

Paul Bradley Larry Duran Joe Gray Hubie Kerns Carey Loftin

Composer Composer

Hugo Friedhofer

Sound Sound

Alfred Bruzlin Warren B. Delaplain

Costume Design Costume Design

Adele Balkan

Makeup Makeup

Hairstyling hairstyling.

Helen Turpin

20th Century Fox

Primary Language

Spoken languages.

English French German

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Review by noir1946 ★★★½ 4

Based on Irwin Shaw’s bestseller, Edward Dmytryk’s The Young Lions is a bit of a potboiler, full of cliches about what men and their women have to endure in wartime. No one actually says “A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do” or “War is hell,” but they come darn close. It’s the sort of predictable nonsense that shouldn’t work but mostly does because of the efforts of the cast.

Michael Whiteacre (Dean Martin) is a singer who suspects he’s not quite the man he should be. Drafted into the army, he could use his celebrity to avoid combat but feels he must test himself, over the protestations of girlfriend Margaret Freemantle (Barbara Rush). Timid Noah Ackerman (Montgomery Clift)…

Review by em🖤 ★★★ 18

Monty Clift, perhaps the most essential american actor(if you have been following me for a while you know who the other contender is), Monty is the Kiarostami of acting: with a laconic glance, an invisible yet elegant body movement, with a line of dialogue that becomes a poem by the way he so magically delivers it, he simply reveals the entire world, with all of its ovewhelming complexities. If you are a fan of his you probably know that he considered his work on this movie and Judgement At Nuremberg his finest perfomances and it's easy to see why: they are the definitive Monty perfomances: perfomances of pain, of longing for a world of joy and happiness in a world…

Review by Will Steele ★★★★

The Young Lions proves nobody understood the art of a well-time explosion quite like Edward Dmytryk. He places charges throughout his pensive war flick hurling obstacles at our scattered protagonists precisely when their personal lives seem more all-consuming than the war being waged around them. Dmytryk injects some stark expressionistic contemplation into the war genre. He allows his stars to meditate upon the horrors but also the heartache that the Second World War wrought for millions.

The Young Lions in question are formidable. Brando gives an unusual yet nonetheless compelling turn as an Ayrian German beginning as decidedly non-political and ending up in uniform as a Nazi officer. His accent is occasionally comical, but his commitment does not falter. His…

Review by Thornhill ★★★★ 4

"Die jungen Löwen" von Edward Dmytryk hat über die Jahre nichts von seiner Strahlkraft als großes Kriegsdrama verloren und zeugt von der ausserordentlichen Könnerschaft vor und hinter der Kamera.

Marlon Brando (blond gefärbt mit artifiziellem Akzent) und Monty Clift (schwer gezeichnet nach einem bösen Autounfall) agieren gewohnt grandios. Für mich zählen sie beide zu den ganz Großen ihrer Zunft!

Einen deutschen Soldaten in den Mittelpunkt eines großbudgetierten Hollywoodfilms zu stellen, war zu dieser Zeit kein unproblematisches Unterfangen. Ganz besonders, da die Romanvorlage aus der Feder von Irwin Shaw stammt. Einem russisch stämmigen Einwanderer, der zusammen mit Dmytryk in das Kreuzfeuer der Kommunistenjäger zu Zeiten der McCarthy-Ära geraten war.

Platz zum scheinen haben hier auch die Darsteller in der zweiten Reihe.…

Review by Mark Cunliffe 🇵🇸 ★★★★

The Young Lions is a solid and absorbing look at the toll war takes on its combatants.

Based on Irwin Shaw's 1948 novel, Edward Dmytryk's adaptation focuses on its three central characters; two American GI's played by Montgomery Clift and Dean Martin, and a Nazi officer, played by Marlon Brando. Where the film differentiates from the novel is the noticeably sympathetic light it places upon Brando's Nazi, Christian Diestl. The novel depicts an increasing dehumanisation of his character as the war progresses, leaving him blind to all but his desire to survive. The film however opts for a different path and explores his commitment to do his duty without question until he realises just what is being asked of him,…

Review by Filipe Furtado ★★ 1

One of those best seller adaptations one can feel the weight of the massive tome. The whole thing is far too schematic to breathe as a movie. There are some fine supporting turns and Dmytryk does a fair job with the larger scale scenes, but seems to struggle with the drama shape. Brando is at his out of control worse as the German soldier. Anyway, this is a key movie in American film history in so far as Dean Martin being perfectly fine in it probably helped Hawks to cast him in Rio Bravo and that Dean Martin got the big career boost out of a movie pitched as Brando/Clift picture tells a lot about it.

Review by Colin the dude ★★½ 2

I really wanted to go along with The Young Lions , but one word summed it up: Inert. At nearly three hours, every scene felt like double its length. There's a lot going on though, at least behind the scenes.

First, Brando. This might be the beginning of him becoming a real problem on sets. He's a legend, a rebel, an idol, but boy was he a bastard to work with. He galvanized attention, warped scripts to suit his selfish interests, and almost everyone he ever worked with had some kind of disparaging remark about him. Montgomery Clift for example called him "a slob" on the set. And you know what, I can see that. Dude was a slob. And he…

Review by Rich ★★½ 3

Far too long and a pretty tough Montgomery Clift hold this one back a lot. It’s just not interesting enough to be that long.

Review by ClinTarantino ★★★½

It’s totally weird that no one of my following users have seen this :O

I mean Brando ? Clift ? Martin ? These 3 in one movie is simply amazing. And so it was and i thought at the start how great? Seeing Marlon in Bavaria skiing and playing the „German“ is somehow amazing especially with his tried German accent :D. Also i noticed one scene with lee van cleef in.

But after the great introductions of the three superstars at their time i mean Brando and Clift the rebels as such dean! And then dean Martin which is playing a suited character to his later musical career. There came good paced action dialogue parts but after that with the…

Review by maddy ★★★ 1

"brando always struck me as a little gay in this movie" - my dad

Review by ryan ★★★★ 1

nipples for dinner

Review by Jenna Ipcar ★★★½

Well gee whiz, this movie had everything I could have wanted: too-cool-for-war Dean Martin and hot-Nazi Brando. Actually, this was a great movie to compare old and new acting styles against. Brando really stands out as a breath of fresh air in comparison to everybody else in this, which isn't to say everybody else was bad but he just has this great way of getting in small gestures and "um"s and just these little human things that are just fascinating. I mean, the guy is so effortlessly charming and believable that you want him to make it through the movie. To see his arch from "maybe Hitler will be okay" to "you're killing how many people? screw this" felt real,…

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It moves with leaden efficiency from one character to another, one country to another, a battle-canvas with no central point of focus.

What's most impressive about Dean Martin's turn is that while his co-stars are Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift, the era's most celebrated Method performers and among the cream of the Hollywood crop, he easily holds his own against this esteemed pair.

Despite major departures from Irwin Shaw's novel, Edward Dmytryk's film is an enjoyable, well executed WWII melodrama with top-notch turns from Marlon Brando as the sympathetic Nazi officer and Montgomery Clift as the shy Jewish-American soldier.

All three stars shine and give this film a luster despite periodic breakdowns in the way the episodic story was told.

Belssimo filme sobre a segunda guerra, mostrando ponto de vistas de soldados de ambos os lados do front. Brando, obviamente, assume o papel de alemo - e sua humanidade faz contraponto aos horrores que testemunha.

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Genre : Drama
Release Date : April 1, 1958
Languages : English
Captions : English, Spanish
Audio Format : 5.1

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Irwin Shaw's 'Young Lions'; War Story Is Offered at the Paramount Brando, Martin and Clift Are Starred

By Bosley Crowther

April 3, 1958

A FRESHLY refurbished Paramount Theatre was reopened for business last night with a benefit premiere performance of the film made from Irwin Shaw's "The Young Lions." In harmony with the occasion, Mr. Shaw's story has been refurbished, too.Most noticeable of its changes is in the character of the young Nazi who, along with two American soldiers, is central in Mr. Shaw's novel of World War II. In that large and sweeping saga, this young warrior is introduced as a fairly decent ski instructor who, under the hammering of nazism and war, is molded into a monster, fired with militaristic madness and blood lust.But in this prettier film version, which is two hours and forty-seven minutes long, this significantly unregenerate Nazi is changed into a very nice young man who never embraces nazism with any apparent zeal. Indeed, he regards the whole business of war with sadness and disgust that become increasingly depressing as time and disasters pile up. Finally, he is thoroughly disillusioned and sick to death with it all, when a bullet, fired by one of the American heroes, brings his sad life to an end.As played by Marion Brando, with his hair dyed a shiny corn-silk blond and his voice affecting a German accent reminiscent of Weber and Fields, this fellow is sensitive and attractive. He evokes complete sympathy. He has the gentleness of one of those nice young Germans in the memorable "All Quiet on the Western Front." Indeed, there is much about "The Young Lions" that is mindful of that film. It is not so much anti-Nazi as it is vaguely and loosely anti-war.And this cues the second notation of what has been done with Mr. Shaw's story in this film, which was produced by the late Al Lichtman for Twentieth Century-Fox. It has been chopped by scriptwriter Edward Anhalt into a sort of formless mosaic episodes that fall together int a sort of formless mosaic of the emotional upsets and physical hardships of three soldiers caught up in war. There is really no noticeable moral difference between the one German and the two Americans.Some of the episodes are quite affecting, such as the one in which the American, who is a Jew, puts up a long, courageous battle against a group of G.I. bigots, abetted by his captain, in training camp. This is matched by the episode in which the German is distastefully compelled to take part in the slaughter of British soldiers caught in a desert surprise attack. In each instance, the individual hero is brutalized by his own countrymen. The only villains are the singular brutes on both sides who make life in the armies miserable.As it happens, Mr. Brando makes the German much more vital and interesting than Montgomery Clift and Dean Martin make the Americans. Mr. Clift is strangely hollow and lackluster as the sensitive Jew. He acts throughout the picture as if he were in a glassy-eyed daze. And Mr. Martin plays a Broadway showman pulled into the army against his will as if he was lonesome for Jerry Lewis and didn't know exactly what to do.Unfortunately, neither the script nor the direction of Edward Dmytryk gives him much help. Mr. Martin has by far the least expressive of the three main roles in the film. Even his girl, played by Barbara Rush, gets shanghaied somewhere along about the end of the second hour and is seen no more. There are several loose threads that Mr. Anhalt and Mr. Dmytryk have failed to tie.As for the women in the picture—Hope Lange, May Britt and Miss Rush—they are competent and attractive in conventional war-picture roles. A shrill, vicious Nazi captain is played that way by Maximilian Schell.There are plenty of hard, familiar incidents in this black-and-white CinemaScope film, but they are old stuff in the making of war movies and they don't add up to a clear theme. "The Young Lions" is strangely impositive about totalitarian aggression and all-out war.

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"There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck."

As a child growing up in the affluent neighborhood of Darien, Connecticut, Chlöe Sevigny was raised in a household some might label 'Bohemian.' In 1992, after ditching school and taking the train to New York City, a 17-year-old Sevigny was approached by the fashion editor of Sassy Magazine , who was impressed by her style. She modeled for the magazine, which led to a fashion connection with the Beastie Boys and Sonic Youth . By 19, Sevigny was the subject of a New Yorker article dubbing her one of "the coolest girls in the world."

Sevigny's 'cool factor' opened doors to star in music videos, and in 1993, her friend Harmony Korine cast her in the risqué indie classic Kids . Sevigny's impressive debut led to a steady flow of acting credits. A role in The Last Days of Disco caught the attention of director Kimberly Peirce , who cast Sevigny in what became her breakthrough performance in Boys Don't Cry . Known for her daring choices in film and television, Sevigny is in the company of other indie queens like Parker Posey and Natasha Leonne , inextricably linked to the origins of independent cinema .

10 'American Psycho' (2000)

Director: mary harron.

American Psycho was released in 2000 and was adapted from Bret Easton Ellis ' 1991 book. The movie was a mix of horror and black comedy , satirizing 80s culture with an emphasis on Huey Lewis and the News . The premise centers around New York City yuppie Patrick Bateman (a sinister Christian Bale ), who gives into homicidal impulses. Jean (Sevigny), Bateman's secretary, narrowly escapes murder via nail gun, while private investigator Donald Kimball ( Willem Dafoe ) inches closer to the truth. Uncertainty plagued audiences and the movie's unreliable narrator by the end of the bloodbath, unsure if anything was as it seemed.

Critics and audiences were split, but the movie was considered a hit, grossing $34 million at the box office. An initial Rotten Tomatoes score of 68% didn't reflect the film's cult following, which continued to grow long after its release. Directors David Cronenberg and Oliver Stone were interested in directing, but Ellis' Bateman was ultimately told from a female perspective, with Roger Ebert praising Harron's vision. Sevigny's character, Jean, is played with an earnest naïveté, as she's romantically interested in Bateman, which makes her one of the few redeemable characters in the film-- an impressive feat considering the world she inhabits.

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9 'Lean on Pete' (2017)

Director: andrew haigh.

Lean on Pete is a coming-of-age tale of a young boy repeatedly met with difficult life lessons requiring him to grow up acceleratedly. The film's young lead, Charley ( Charlie Plummer ), tackles poverty, friendship, loss, and inevitable maturity with an ease relegated to seasoned thespians. During Charley's rocky road to adulthood, he meets and falls in love with Lean on Pete, a racehorse at the end of his career . The people in Pete's orbit, owner Del ( Steve Buschemi ) and horse jockey Bonnie (Sevigny), are less affected by the threat of the horse's imminent fate, forcing Charley to make his own plan. Charley's adventure is reminiscent of Huckleberry Finn or that of Odysseus in a remarkably vulnerable yet saccharine-free saga.

This movie includes a horse as a central character, so anyone with illusions of the animal not incurring an unfortunate fate hasn't seen War Horse or the Tony Soprano storyline featuring Pie-O-My . However, the movie isn't unbearable to witness; it doesn't resemble Artex giving in to the sadness of the swamps in The Neverending Story . Instead, the supporting cast is folded in like butter into a recipe, offering flavor and nourishment, advancing the story forward. Critics loved the film and raved about the nuanced performance by young Charlie Plummer. Bonnie has a few sage morsels for the impressionable youth in a brief appearance by Sevigny, but she manages to make an impact in a moving illustration of a child allowed to slip through the cracks.

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8 'Zodiac' (2007)

Director: david fincher.

In 2007, David Fincher handcrafted an atmospheric thriller chronicling the Zodiac Killer and those attempts made to find and capture him. Jake Gyllenhaal plays Robert Graysmith , the cartoonist working for the San Francisco Chronicle who becomes entrenched in his search to unmask the elusive killer. Crime reporter Paul Avery ( Robert Downey Jr. ) and police inspectors Dave Toschi ( Mark Ruffalo ) and Bill Armstrong ( Anthony Edwards ) can't collaborate in an official capacity. Still, Graysmith tirelessly works to decipher puzzles sent by the killer, obsessing for over 13 years and writing two books on the subject.

Some audiences found the movie to be overly long and devoid of gratuitous violence and gore befitting a serial killer of this renowned. However, Fincher's fans are legion, and critics praised the film for capturing the tone and frustration surrounding the Bay Area during the serial killers' active reign. The movie remained on critics' top 10 lists and scored 90% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes . Sevigny's contribution to the film is essential in communicating the gradual deterioration of Goldsmith's marriage. Through Sevigny, audiences witness a wife slowly losing her husband to obsession, played with an impressive graduation from annoyance to resignation.

7 'Dogville' (2003)

Director: lars von trier.

Director Lars von Trier 's experimental film Dogville unfurls over nine chapters. In the prologue, an interloper named Grace Mulligan ( Nicole Kidman ) is on the run from mobsters and arrives in Dogville, a small town nestled in the Rocky Mountains. She meets Tom ( Paul Bettany ), who insists the mountains are too arduous to pass, thus leading her to meet Dogville's inhabitants. Without food, money, or shelter, Grace is at the mercy of the residents and becomes the town's source of ire, spiraling horribly until the mobsters hunting Grace reappear with a revelation.

Some critics celebrated the film and its barely furnished staged set design; others cited the sprawling allegory as 'challenging.' However brutal the treatment of Grace becomes, audiences receive von Trier's message -- evil can arise anywhere as long as the situation is right. The cast, Lauren Bacall , Stellan Skarsgard , Patricia Clarkson , and James Caan , work together to make a town outlined in chalk seem three-dimensional. Sevigny stars as Liz, a devoted member of Dogville committed to inflicting love or hate depending on the collective vote of the people. Her time with Grace is brief but lasting as she toes a merciless chalked line.

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6 'Shattered Glass' (2003)

Director: billy ray.

Shattered Glass is a biopic detailing the rise and fall of journalist Stephen Glass during his time at The New Republic . Hayden Christensen portrays Glass, a young associate editor who fabricates news stories and sources to advance his career. The newly appointed senior editor of the magazine, Charles Lane ( Peter Sarsgaard ), discovers Glass's falsified sources, ultimately uncovering 27 incidents of published fabrications. The drama featured supporting cast members Melanie Lynskey , Hank Azaria , and Sevigny as Caitlin Avey, a cinematic amalgamation of two of Glass's friends and allies, Hanna Rosin and Johnathan Chait.

While Roger Ebert compared the movie to All the President's Men , others criticized the director for glorifying Glass, offering further notoriety to someone who deserves none. Still, the film was received favorably, with Rotten Tomatoes awarding the movie an impressive 92% fresh score . Though Sarsgaard and Christensen enjoyed the most screen time, supporting players like Sevigny and Lynskey deserve credit for providing depth to a layered story. Sevigny carefully navigated Caitlin through uncertainty as she struggled to reconcile deceit from a trusted friend in an inspired performance.

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5 'the last days of disco' (1998), director: whit stillman.

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Hal Hartley , Aaron Sorkin, and Whit Stillman have a common forte: dialogue-dominant writing so intelligent and witty that a movie can have little else going on and still be immensely entertaining. Popular coming-of-age movies and 90s television shows like Friends offer something similar: nothing really happens, but viewers wouldn't mind if nothing ever did. The dynamic between Charlotte and Alice isn't precisely nurturing, but the two leads possess an unmistakable chemistry . The actors embody someone with values and someone who wants to be valued, respectively.

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4 'Broken Flowers' (2005)

Director: jim jarmusch.

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Nominated for the Palme d'Or in 2005, critics loved the movie, and it did well fiscally, grossing over $47 million worldwide . As Don approaches each of the women in their respective lives, audiences join in the mystery, immersed in this Murray-led Scrooged -adjacent revisiting of the past. When he finds Dr. Carmen Markowski, Don is met with Carmen's ambiguously overprotective assistant (Sevigny), who is brilliant at obfuscating the truth of their dynamic. Though the assistant wasn't representative of Don's past, she made a mark on his present, a gift the actor has proven she can deliver with minor roles.

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3 'love and friendship' (2016).

Based on Jane Austen's unpublished posthumous novella , Lady Susan , Love and Friendship reunites costars Beckinsale and Sevigny, this time in period garb. In the comedy, Beckinsale stars as a recent widow, Susan Vernon, who is not particularly bereft but highly irreverent. Susan is on the prowl for a replacement husband, but while she's at it, she'd like to score one for her daughter, Frederica ( Morfydd Clark ). Amid handwritten correspondence and strolls with decorative hats, Susan confides and conspires with her friend, Alicia Johnson (Sevigny). The women participate in hijinks and hysteria worthy of an episode of Seinfeld starring David Copperfield .

Some Austen adaptations are dull, some involve zombies, and then there's Love and Friendship . Interestingly, Stillman was quoted saying that he relied on Austen's literary influence but also modeled the movie with Dirty Rotten Scoundrels in mind . As Susan, Beckinsale proved she could pull off the machinations of a diabolical debutante, and Sevigny rose to the challenge as a calculated coconspirator. The movie was loved by critics, generating a box office gross of $21 million against a meager $3 million budget . Stillman's refreshing take on a lesser-known classic will endure, and fans of Sevigny shouldn't miss this one.

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2 'kids' (1995), director: larry clark.

Kids is a film featuring depictions of teens participating in consensual and non-consensual (or, in some cases, unconscious) drug use, violence, theft, and sex. It follows teens Telly ( Leo Fitzpatrick ), Casper ( Justin Pierce ), Jennie (Sevigny), Ruby ( Rosario Dawson ), and Darcy ( Yakira Peguero ) as they traverse New York City like feral cats with expendable lives. At one end of the city, the boys boast about their devil-may-care attitude towards sex, while the girls are getting tested with the hope they've evaded diseases. Though Kids is a work of fiction, the importance of providing information and tools to children reverberates through the screen.

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1 'Boys Don't Cry' (1999)

Director: kimberly peirce.

Based on the real-life story of a slain trans man, Brandon Teena, Boys Don't Cry is a biographical film co-written and directed by Kimberly Peirce. In the movie, Hilary Swank stars as Brandon, while Sevigny takes on the role of his girlfriend, Lana Tisdel. The story begins with Brandon's arrival in Nebraska, where he meets Lana and the two men who would later murder him. Released only a year after the hate crime and murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming, the movie featured a similar premise: a young man was killed for being himself .

Peirce was determined to provide real-life details and factual transcripts of the case, meeting with Lana and people who knew Brandon. Despite her efforts, however, some friends and family didn't agree with Peirce's depiction and sought legal action. Fortunately, the movie was well-received by many audiences and critics, earning over $11 million worldwide, starting with a scrappy $1 million budget. For Sevigny and Swank, accolades poured in, including Academy Award nominations for both, with Swank winning the Oscar for Best Actress. For the actors, the movie marked a turning point in their careers and solidified their status as elite performers.

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32 Great Broadway Musicals Based On Movies

Hollywood and Broadway often collide!

While Broadway and Hollywood are often thought of as their own entities on the opposite side of the United States, they share a lot more in common than one might think. Particularly, a ton of popular and very good musicals over the years have been created thanks to the movies they are based on. Check out all these instances of Broadway musicals being inspired by Hollywood movies!

The Lion King

Following Disney’s The Lion King becoming the highest-grossing animated movie of all time upon its release in 1994, it was developed into a rare stage musical that has gone on to become one of Broadway’s mainstays. The Lion King musical reimagines the 2D animated epic into an impressive visual experience complete with elaborate animal costumes and giant hollow puppets. The stage show also includes six indigenous African languages which are spoken throughout the show.

Little Shop Of Horrors

In 1960, director Roger Corman made The Little Shop Of Horrors , which is about a florist’s assistant who grows a plant that turns into a flesh-eating monster. Twenty years later, legendary composer-lyricist duo Alan Menken and Howard Ashman developed a musical version of the storyline which premiered off-off Broadway in 1982 to a successful five-year run. It has since been on Broadway numerous times. Plus, the musical was adapted into a movie in 1986 starring Rick Moranis, Steve Martin , John Candy, James Belushi, and Bill Murray .

Keri Russell as Jenna in waitress outfit with berries on her finger in 2007's Waitress

In 2007, Adrienne Shelly’s Waitress became an indie darling when it premiered at Sundance at the front of the year. The movie stars Keri Russell as a small-town waitress who unexpectedly gets pregnant amidst an abusive marriage. In 2015, with the help of Sara Bareilles, who wrote the music and lyrics, Waitress became a smash hit on Broadway from 2016 to 2020. The musical is so beloved, the production was filmed and brought to theaters in 2023.

Hairspray

Back in 1988, John Waters made a cult classic in Hairspray . The movie follows an overweight teen Tracy Turnblad living in Baltimore, Maryland in the year 1962, who dreams of appearing on the popular local TV program The Corny Collins Show . In 2002, it was turned into a Broadway musical that would go on to win eight Tony awards, including Best Musical. Its musical version was adapted into a movie in 2007.

School Of Rock

One of the best music movies of all time has to be School of Rock starring Jack Black . The Richard Linklater movie is about Dewey Finn, a down-on-his-luck musician who impersonates his roommate and becomes a substitute teacher for a prep school where he forms an underground band on campus made up of his students. The 2015 Broadway musical, composed by the legendary Andrew Lloyd Webber, ran in New York until 2019.

Some Like It Hot

One of Marilyn Monroe ’s most famous movies is 1959’s Some Like It Hot , which also stars Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. It's about two men who make their escape from Chicago after witnessing a Mafia murder by dressing as women and joining an all-female jazz band, led by Monroe’s sultry singer character. In 2022, the movie was turned into a musical by Hairspray ’s composer, Marc Shaiman. The show is set to embark on its first North American tour in the fall of 2024.

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The Color Purple

In 2023, The Color Purple stage musical was turned into a movie . The release came nearly 20 years after the Broadway version of the story first opened with the likes of Quincy Jones and Oprah Winfrey as producers. Before The Color Purple ran from 2005 to 2008 and had a successful revival back in 2015, it was first a novel by Alice Walker before Steven Speilberg adapted it in 1985. The beloved story revolves around an African-American teen named Celie as she is raised in rural Georgia in the early 1990s.

Beauty and the Beast

Disney’s “tale as old as time” became a Broadway musical just two years after the animated hit became a huge success for the House of Mouse in 1991. Just like the movie, the stage production is about the book-loving Belle who stumbles upon an enchanted castle while looking for her father where a Beast lives. While she’s initially held there against her will, she starts to fall in love with her captor, who is a lot more than meets the eyes.

The Producers

Back in 1967, Mel Brooks wrote and directed The Producers starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder. It’s about two con artists who decide to oversell a stage musical in order to get rich. While it was controversial when it came out, it later became a cult favorite and in 2001 a Broadway version of the storyline was created starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. The show won a record-breaking 12 Tony awards (out of the 15 it was nominated for) including Best Musical.

Back To The Future

When it comes to the best ‘80s movies , Back To The Future instantly comes to mind! The blockbuster is unforgettable for its quotable dialogue, great banter between Michael J. Fox’s Marty McFly and Christopher Lloyd’s Doc Brown, and its iconic DeLorean, of course. In 2020, a musical version of the movie, with a book by one of the movie’s writers, Bob Gale, emerged in England and quickly became a hit. Back To The Future: The Musical made its Broadway debut in the summer of 2023 and is going strong in New York City, with a tour on the way.

Kinky Boots

2005’s Kinky Boots had Joel Edgerton playing a shoe factory owner who ends up teaming up with a drag queen, Chiwetel Ejifor’s Lola to save his dying business by making footwear for other drag queens. Shortly after, Kinky Boots was developed for the stage with none other than Cyndi Lauper working on its music and lyrics. Like many shows on this list, Kinky Boots is one of those Broadway shows that have been so popular that they’ve run for a crazy amount of time .

Billy Elliot

Set during England’s miners’ strike in the ‘80s, 2000’s Billy Eilliot is about a young working-class boy who falls in love with ballet. After Jamie Bell played the leading role at the age of 13, Elton John helped develop it into a stage musical for the West End. (Fun fact: Tom Holland famously once starred as one of the West End Billy Elliots before he was Spider-Man, which Zendaya can do an A+ impression of .) It later moved to Broadway, of course!

Moulin Rouge!

Baz Luhrmann wrote and directed a stunning jukebox musical movie starring Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor back in 2001 with Moulin Rouge! The romantic drama takes place in the Montmartre Quarter of Paris where a writer (Ewan McGregor) stumbles upon a troupe of performers and helps them write a show. In the midst of this, he falls in love with Kidman’s Satine. While its musical started in Boston, it quickly moved to Broadway a year after its premiere.

The Little Mermaid

Disney’s big “Under The Sea” masterpiece, 1989’s The Little Mermaid , was a no-brainer for a Broadway show after its smash commercial success. The musical went to Broadway in 2008 and has since gone across the globe.

Beetlejuice

Tim Burton’s beloved horror comedy, Beetlejuice , saw Michael Keaton playing a hilarious and rather creepy poltergeist that is hired by a recently deceased couple to drive away the new inhabitants of their home. A Broadway musical version of the movie debuted in 2019. The show unfortunately had a short first run due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but since returned, toured, and may even be better than the original movie .

Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova in Once

John Carney’s Once is a sweet romantic musical from Ireland about a busker who forms a connection with a Czech immigrant woman over their love for music. A few years after the 2007 movie won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for “Falling Slowly”, it was transformed into an equally sweet Broadway musical in 2011.

Sunset Boulevard

Back in 1950, Sunset Boulevard , which continues to be thought of as one of the greatest movies of all time, hit theaters. It’s about an aging movie star, who once ruled the silent film era, who hires a screenwriter to help her make a comeback. Forty years later, the black-and-white classic was brought to the stage with music from Andrew Lloyd Webber. There’s an interesting story behind it because the star of the original actually worked on a musical version back in the ‘50s, but it never came to fruition. Luckily, the musical implemented some of Gloria Swanson’s work.

Bring It On

About a decade after Bring It On became a cult classic of an early ‘00s flick about the world of cheerleading, Bring It On: The Musical took its school spirit to Broadway. Lin-Manuel Miranda and Tom Kitt wrote the music and allowed its cast to bring some impressive gymnastics from the popular sport to a massive NYC stage.

Dreamworks’ hit spin on fairy tales, Shrek , turned into a Broadway in 2008. Brian d’Arcy James and Sutton Foster originated the roles of Shrek and Fiona in the original Broadway production about a love story between a green ogre and a princess. Unlike many movies-to-musicals on this list, Shrek The Musical borrows from multiple Shrek movies that were made over the years.

Mean Girls

“Fetch” may never happen, but Mean Girls has certainly become not only a favorite high school flick, but one of the best movies of the 2000s . After Tina Fey wrote the original script about a new student who shakes up the dynamics of her school’s hottest clique, the SNL alum wrote the musical’s book. Recently, a Mean Girls remake was released based on the stage production as well.

Newsies

Back in 1992, two Disney legends came together to make a new musical called Newsies . Director Kenny Ortega, who would later do the High School Musical movies, and Alan Menken, who composed the music. The movie about newspaper boys during the newsboys’ strike in 1899 stars Christian Bale, Bill Pullman, and Robert Duvall. Twenty years later, a stage version hit Broadway with tons of new numbers not seen in the movie.

An American In Paris

Gene Kelly dazzled with his mega-star power in the 1951 musical comedy (and Best Picture winner), An American In Paris . He even choreographed many of the dance numbers himself! It follows his character Jerry Mulligan, a World War II veteran who tries to make it as an artist in Paris. In 2014, a stage version premiered in Paris before coming to Broadway the following year.

The Band’s Visit

2007’s The Band’s Visit is an Israeli movie that starts when a group of eight men that comprise Egypt's Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra arrive in Israel to play at an Arab cultural center. However, through a miscommunication, they accidentally end up in a small town in the Negev Desert where they are taken in by a small restaurant owner. In 2017, the Broadway version became a Tony-winning Best Musical that initially starred Monk ’s Tony Shalhoub.

“10,000 years will give you such a crick in the neck!” So why keep the Genie in the bottle? It only took about twenty years for Disney to take its Arabian Nights animated movie into a Broadway production that continues to be a popular ticket for those to grab while they are in New York City.

Whoopi Goldberg will always be remembered for her hilarious leading role in 1992’s Sister Act . So, it’s no wonder that the comedy about a lounge singer who is placed in a convent as a nun after witnessing a murder would be a great place to start for a stage production. Alan Menken composed the music, and Goldberg produced the production that first debuted in Pasadena, California back in 2006 and continues to tour more cities.

Finding Neverland

Funny enough, 2004’s Finding Neverland , was based on a play called The Man Who Was Peter Pan from a few years prior. The movie, starring Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet, told the story of J.M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan . Since its release, it has been adapted for Broadway, where it had a 17-month run in New York City.

Mary Poppins

Walt Disney and the Sherman Brothers made an all-time great movie musical in 1964 starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke. It was only a matter of time before it found a place on Broadway, wasn’t it? Audiences have been having a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious time with the British nanny since it debuted at the West End in 2004.

Anastasia

In 1997, audiences learned the tune of hit songs like “Once Upon A December” and “Journey To The Past” with the animated film, Anastasia . The movie loosely based off the legend of the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia starred Meg Ryan, John Cusack, Christopher Lloyd, Hank Azaria and Angela Lansbury. Two decades after the children’s movie came out, it landed on Broadway with a mix of its fan-favorite songs and new ones.

Footloose

After Kevin Bacon’s Footloose overturned the ban on dancing in a small town with the hit 80s movie, Ren McCormack was revived for the stage with the 1998 Broadway musical, yes, with Kenny Loggins among the creatives in the mix.

American Psycho

Yes, even movies about serial killers can be fodder for Broadway! Back in 2013, Doctor Who ’s Matt Smith actually debuted the role of Patrick Bateman on the stage in London before the musical went to Broadway three years later. American Psycho was a 2000 movie starring Christian Bale, and based on a 1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis.

Frozen

Do you want to build a snowman? After Disney’s Frozen became a certified phenomenon with its earworms that had stars like Kristen Bell hilariously apologizing to parents , the production became an on-stage extravaganza to see on Broadway in 2018. The story is about Elsa, a royal who embraces her longtime secret powers by freezing her kingdom and her sister’s journey to find her.

Tootsie

After Tootsie , led by Dustin Hoffman and Jessica Lange, became one of the biggest movies of the ‘80s, it was transformed into a Broadway musical in 2019. The production follows an actor who decided to present as a woman in order to land a job following a disintegrating reputation. While the movie is about a daytime soap opera, the musical version is about Michael trying out for a Broadway musical.

And this trend is not expected to stop! A lot of musicals based on movies are also rumored to hit the stage in the years to come.

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Video Of Heroic Buffalo Herd Rescuing One Of Their Own From Lion Ambush Goes Viral

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The buffalos came together to rescue one of their members.

The lions repeatedly try to topple the buffalo. But there were so many buffaloes in the herd that they had to abandon the plan.

Animal videos often garner attention on the internet. One such intriguing clip has gone viral, where a buffalo gets saved by its herd while a few lions attack him. In the video, it can be seen that some lions are sitting in ambush. They saw a herd of buffaloes and felt that they got a chance to hunt, and were sitting, hiding behind the grass.

Then, a buffalo is spotted emerging from the herd and approaching them. Lions become alert. As soon as he approaches, many lions attack him at once. The buffalo runs here and there when it realises it is encircled. It also tries to attack the lions so that they run away, but the lions have come with the intention of hunting.

Meanwhile, when other buffaloes in the herd come to know about it, they rush to save their companion. When the lions saw them approaching, they got threatened, but how could they leave the prey behind? They repeatedly try to topple the buffalo. But there were so many buffaloes in the herd that they had to abandon the plan.

Later, the group of lions returns without hunting. The video was shared four days ago on the YouTube channel Maasai Sightings. Take a look at the clip:

The video has till now garnered 360,524 views on YouTube, while viewers shared their feedback in the comment box. One of the users wrote, “Luckily, the young buffalo had not strayed that far from the herd. I probably learned a very valuable lesson." Another commented, “This buffalo knows that the first moments determine the difference between life and death, so it used its utmost strength to reach the herd." “It’s about time the buffalo defended each other by joining forces and using offence to make the lions retreat," added the third user.

A few days ago, a similar clip went viral, where a buffalo was pinned down and surrounded by many lions. In the meantime, a lioness stands up and wanders to the side, as if she is taking a break from the feast. Then, a battle breaks out as the lioness chases another.

In a few moments, the entire group of lions gets busy in an intense fight. The conflict picks up speed quickly, grabbing the group’s attention in the fight. Meanwhile, the buffalo attempts to get away. It seizes the opportunity and flees to freedom as the lion gets distracted by the continuing fight. The buffalo ultimately manages to save his life.

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C.J. Moore thought he might never get a second chance in the NFL after he was suspended indefinitely for betting on football games . Now that he has one, he wants to make sure none of his young teammates gamble unnecessarily with their futures.

"When I hear anybody talking about it, like I said I will walk away," Moore said Thursday in his first public comments since his suspension last spring. "But if I can help and tell these guys and encourage them don’t even gamble at all, that’s my word to them."

Moore was one of five Detroit Lions players caught in a league-wide gambling probe last April, along with Jameson Williams, Quintez Cephus, Stanley Berryhill and Demetrius Taylor.

Moore, Cephus and Taylor were suspended indefinitely for betting on NFL games, while Williams and Berryhill had six-game suspensions that were reduced last September. The Detroit Lions released Moore, Cephus and Berryhill at or shortly after the time of their suspensions, and had moved on from Taylor before his suspension was announced.

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The NFL reinstated Moore and four other players who sat out the 2023 season this spring, and the Lions re-signed Moore to a one-year contract May 7.

Moore declined Thursday to share specifics of how much he bet or how many wagers he placed, but was accountable for the actions that led to his suspension.

"I knew the rules, just like I said, just being immature, just gambling, losing control of being aware of exactly what I was doing," he said. "So just careless mistake."

He dismissed any role that injury played in his gambling habits — he missed the start of the 2022 season with a foot injury — and said the accessibility of online betting was no excuse for not following NFL rules.

"There was times where I mean, it was tough," Moore said. "I didn’t know what (was going to happen to me). It was a lot of uncertainty, but all I could do was just try to put my best foot forward, be a good pro and just try to prepare to come back and I’m just so thankful to be back."

Moore said he stayed busy during his time away from football, when he was not allowed to have contact with teams.

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He got married. He and his wife welcomed their second child. And he spent most of his time training at a gym in New Jersey.

"In spite of all of a negative situation, there was a lot of good that came out of it," he said. "So it was good. It was good."

An undrafted free agent who originally signed with the Lions out of Ole Miss in 2019, Moore was one of the team's best special teams players in 2019-22. He had eight special teams tackles in 2021 and ran for two first downs as a personal protector on fake punts in 2022.

Lions special teams coordinator Dave Fipp said Thursday he was thrilled to have Moore back in the fold this fall.

"I’m obviously excited to have him back," Fipp said. "I hated seeing him go, but anyways it’s great to have him back. He’s an energetic player, he’s always got a positive attitude, he’s an optimistic person and he is a very sudden player, too, so that helps. But yeah, we’re definitely excited."

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Moore said it was "bittersweet" watching the Lions go 12-5 and reach the NFC championship game without him last season, but he's grateful to be back in a special teams role this fall.

"I had been with this team when we didn’t win a lot of games, so being in that building and watching those guys win felt great and just feeling like I should have been there, that was the tough part," he said. "But I was super excited for the team, super excited for these guys making plays, so yeah, I would say a little bittersweet, but a lot more sweet."

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“That’s no disrespect to Hawthorn. They played very well against us in those games, but we were nowhere near our best.

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“If we are, then we give ourselves a good chance. If we’re not, then the same thing will happen.”

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The desire to end their run of outs against Hawthorn was among the reasons why the Lions didn’t bask for long in the glory of their 119-point demolition of a depleted Richmond last Saturday at the Gabba

“(Beating Hawthorn) was the first thing the players talked about after the game on Saturday night,” said Fagan, who also kept the enormity of the win over the Tigers in “perspective”.

“We played a seriously weakened Richmond team. They’ve got good players out, so you have to put it in perspective.

“The pleasing thing was that sometimes in those games when you probably know at half-time, that you’re every chance to win, effort and workrate can drop away but I didn’t think that happened at all.

“We were as good in the second half as we were in the first half, and that’s what we were looking for.”

While the Lions will lose suspended forward Eric Hipwood this weekend, the versatile Zac Bailey is set to return from an ankle injury that has sidelined him for five matches.

“Someone like Zac Bailey, if we select him, if he’s available, he makes our team better,” Fagan said.

“His goal-scoring and his goal-creating ability, his speed and agility, he’s a 100-plus game player, he helps us in the midfield, and he helps us up forward.

“They are difficult (selection) decisions because the players that have come in have done a good job, but also you’ve got to recognise the effort and the history of blokes that are well established AFL players.”

Despite Bailey’s return, the Lions’ injury list remains extensive, with Fagan saying the club would “certainly” recruit some fresh faces in next week’s mid-season draft.

“We’ve got four long-term (injuries). I’m not sure whether we’ll go for four spots or we’ll fill two spots. I don’t know what the philosophy will be there but we’ll certainly get some new players in,” he said.

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Maybe it was the chilly temperatures, steady breeze and light spatterings of rain, which take a toll when a person is standing outdoors on an elevated platform — like the stage of a concert venue — for two hours. Or maybe it was just an off night. But the feverishly passionate reviews for the first dates of Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s “ Love Earth” tour — their first in a decade — bore little resemblance to the band that plodded through its set Wednesday evening in the second of a two-night stand New York’s Forest Hills Stadium. And the fact that they were plodding through a stunning setlist of songs from the peak of Young’s illustrious career only made it worse.

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But a band, especially a live rock band, is only as good as its rhythm section, and on Wednesday night, the once-mighty Crazy Horse began wandering off the track as soon as they’d started. Most of the songs were played significantly slower than their recorded versions, sometimes approaching a sludgey, almost doom-metal tempo. Drummer Ralph Molina and bassist Billy Talbot, both 80, could barely keep things moving, missing beats and losing time. Rhythm guitarist Micah Nelson — country legend Willie’s 33-year-old son, who is new to this band but has been playing with Young for a decade — did his best to hold it together, but Young was cutting songs off at the earliest opportunity, where in the past he’d often just be getting started.

To be fair, the last time I saw Neil and Crazy Horse was in 1996 — when they blew the roof off of Madison Square Garden with an electrifying set filled with so many great songs that you just couldn’t believe it — and a spot listen to YouTube recordings of other concerts on this tour, including the previous night’s , finds the band playing better, sometimes much better. But this show had a killer setlist too — and apparently the tour’s debut of “Mansion on the Hill” — and hearing those timeless songs played by what at times sounded like your uncle’s covers band only made things worse. Young, who usually includes at least some more-recent material in his sets, kept it classic — just one song from the ‘90s, nothing newer — which suggests that maybe he knows this is probably Crazy Horse’s last ride.

It’s a fact of biology to say that elderly rock and roll is always going to be like an old-timers’ baseball game: No matter how much energy they display onstage, nearly all vocalists past a certain age must sing in lower registers. Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, Elton John and many others in the 70-and-above group are able to deliver stadium-sized sets thanks to low-key but essential support from auxiliary players and singers — Springsteen’s current tour band totals 18 musicians. Drummers, obviously, have it hardest of all: The Stones’ late, great Charlie Watts must have been a freak of nature to power through two-hour sets into his late 70s; most older bands with their classic-era drummers are supported on tour with percussionists. And let’s be honest, whether we realize it or not, prerecorded backing tracks have become so ubiquitous at major concerts that our ears may be unaccustomed to not hearing them.

Neil Young has never done any of that and never will — he even made a crack about it early in the show, while waiting for his roadie to tune his trusty, battered Gibson Les Paul. “We have to make sure all the backing tracks are in synch,” he joked.

None of this is to say that older humans can’t be superhuman musicians or shouldn’t be touring and performing. But this band has two months’ worth of dates ahead of it, and on Wednesday night, it was hard not to wish that Neil had put the spurs on.

Setlist: Cortez the Killer    Cinnamon Girl    Fuckin’ Up    Down by the River    Scattered (Let’s Think About Livin’)    Roll Another Number (For the Road) Don’t Cry No Tears    Mansion on the Hill Danger Bird    Powderfinger    Love and Only Love    Comes a Time Heart of Gold Human Highway I Am a Child Sugar Mountain Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)    Encore: Like a Hurricane  Encore 2: Roll Another Number (For the Road) (reprise, incomplete)

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