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World War Ii | Soldier
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Top Male Dramatic Performance | 1958 | Marlon
Best Music Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture | 1959
Best Sound | 1959 | Carlton W.
Best Cinematography BlackandWhite | 1959
Best Film Promoting International Understanding | 1959
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | 1959 | Edward
Budget 3,000,000 USD
Montgomery Clift commented upon Brando's performance during the filming. He called Brando a slob and that he was using only about one third of his talent.
Montgomery Clift was widely felt to look too old and too unhealthy to be an A1 soldier.
Irwin Shaw was not happy about Marlon Brando's sympathetic portrayal of the Nazi soldier. This was a conscious decision on the part of Brando, director Edward Dmytryk and screenwriter Edward Anhalt who felt that a more lenient depiction would be more representative of the German people as a whole. (Not coincidentally, the German market had opened up considerably after WWII and represented a significant opportunity for Hollywood movies to make a profit.)
Dean Martin was a close friend of Montgomery Clift. Martin was always grateful for the help Clift had given him while filming "The Young Lions (1958)," Martin's first major dramatic role, and he would accompany him to parties after the rest of Hollywood had disowned him due to his increasing addictions to drugs and alcohol.
At the time the film was made, Maximilian Schell (Captain Hardenberg) could not speak English and had to learn his lines phonetically from Marlon Brando (Lt. Christian Diestl).
"Capt. Hardenberg: The German army is invincible because it is an army that obeys orders. Any order. No matter how distasteful. It has no sentimentalists, no moralists, no individualists. You will have no future in it if you don't understand that. You may have no future at all if you oppose it. I trouble to tell you this because you have a fine record. You will be a creative soldier, once you get all this "thinking" knocked out of you."
"Capt. Hardenberg: [two Nazi officers, escaping on a motorcycle in the middle of the endless desert] Don't fall asleep, damn you. Talk! Talk to me! Lt. Christian Diestl: [confused] Uh, I wish I was back in Austria! I wish I was back in the snow... in the winter... in the mountains... Capt. Hardenberg: [impatient] Not like that! Talk about something else! Lt. Christian Diestl: [amused] Can I talk about what I did with your wife the last time I was in Berlin?"
