NEAR MINT - UNSEALED - ONLY ONE AVAILABLE
Disc 1
The Young Lions
1. Main Title - Ski Run (2:03)
2. Christian & Francoise/Michael's Theme (5:38)
3. Hope & Noah (4:49)
4. The Captain's Lady (2:07)
5. North American Episode (5:44)
6. Parisian Interlude (5:09)
7. Berlin Aftermath (3:13)
8. A Letter from Noah (2:13)
9. River Crossing (3:03)
10. Death of Christian/End Title (5:22)
Disc 2
From: This Earth Is Mine
1. Main Title (3:27)
2. Martha's Vineyard (1:58)
3. The Kiss (1:50)
4. Wine Caves (2:36)
5. Good Catch (3:21)
6. Amorous Andre (1:31)
7. Confessional (4:40)
8. John & Mother (1:05)
9. Be Honest (3:35)
10. Mountain Vineyard (2:26)
11. Catastrophe (2:49)
12. Hospital (2:19)
13. Back to the Soil (2:55)
14. End Title (3:41)
THE YOUNG LIONS - Though several concessions to the censors and the box-office were made in adapting Irwin Shaw's bestseller The Young Lions to the screen, the end result is generally effective and satisfying. Set during World War 2, the film concentrates on three individuals, one German, two American. Marlon Brando (whose accent ebbs and floes from scene to scene) plays an idealistic German whose early fascination with Nazism leads to doubt and disillusionment. American entertainer Dean Martin, on the verge of the Big Time, does his best to dodge the draft but ends up in uniform all the same. And American Jew Montgomery Clift, so sensitive that he's practically breakable, must come to grips with anti-Semitism, not only from the Germans but also from his fellow soldiers. Romance enters the picture in the form of Hope Lange as Clift's gentile girlfriend, Barbara Rush as the socialite who shames Martin into joining up, and May Britt as Brando's vis-a-vis. Screenwriter Edward Anhalt was obliged to shoehorn in a boot-camp sequence indicating that the Brass disapproved of the bigoted behavior of Clift's topkick Lee van Cleef (as if racism was a mere aberration during the 1940s), and to "slightly" alter the ending of the book, in which the embittered but still patriotic Brando character, shouting "Welcome to Germany!," machine-guns the Martin and Clift characters (in the film, it is Brando who bites the dust, symbolically dying for Hitler's sins). Maximillian Schell offers a starmaking turn as Brando's cynical comrade, while an uncredited John Banner, "Sergeant Schultz" on Hogan's Heroes, shows up as a pompous burgomeister who feigns ignorance of the hellish concentration camp in his community. 1958
THIS EARTH IS MINE - Based on the novel The Cup and the Sword by Alice Tisdale Hobart, this drama examines the trials and tribulations of three generations of French-American California vineyard owners. It's set during the Prohibition era, when wine makers were financially challenged and had to decide whether or not they wanted to cooperate with bootleggers to survive. Claude Rains plays Philippe Rambeau, an older grower in the Napa Valley who approaches his work like a craftsman. His grandson John (Rock Hudson) wants to make money by getting the family a cut of the bootleg market for wine. John's cousin Elizabeth (Jean Simmons) arrives from England summoned by Philippe, who hopes that she will bring stability to the business. John and Elizabeth fall in love, but Elizabeth soon finds that her cousin is reprehensible. The ruthless John sends raiding parties to damage his competitors -- and rapes and impregnates a field worker. 1959
