Actor Marlon Brando wrote one of the most glorious pages in the history of celluloid thanks to an impressive trajectory that places him as one of the myths of the seventh art. This year, the same year that we learned, thanks to local researcher Carlos Zamarriego, that Brando spent a few days on vacation in Benalmádena in 1957, it is a century of his birth and twenty years of his death. FICCAB, in addition to publishing a special issue of its traditional magazine Benalzine, projects The Dance of the Damned, the film that Brando worked on when, on a break from the shooting, he arrived in Benalmádena to rest a few days at the Finca La Verdad
Original title: The Young Lions
Year: 1958
Duration: 167 min.
Country: USA
Address: Edward Dmytryk
Script: Edward Anhalt.
Novel: Irwin Shaw
Cast: Marlon Brando, Montgomery Cliff, Dean Martin, Hope Lange, Barbara Rush, May Britt, Maximilian Schell, Dora Doll, Lee Van Cleef, Arthur Franz.
Music: Hugo Friedhofer
Photography: Joseph MacDonald (B & W)
The Dancing of the Damned is an American war film, released in 1958, which examines how the Second World War affects the lives of three young, disparate soldiers.
One of the central characters of the film is Christian Diestl (played by Marlon Brando), a young German idealist who voluntarily joins the army because he believes in Adolf Hitler and national socialism. The film recounts the gradual evolution of its scepticism and subsequent rejection of Nazism, although it continues to serve as a regressive lieutenant of the German army. Diestl's story is intertwined with that of two American soldiers: Noah Ackerman (Montgomery Clift), a Jew who has to fight intolerance inside and out of service, and Michael Whiteacre (Dean Martin), a popular Broadway star who, after being recruited, initially uses his fame to evade dangerous missions. The film mixes the experiences of young people, including their tumultuous relationships with the women they love.
The Dancing of the Damned was an adaptation of Irwin Shaw's 1948 homonymous novel. Brando and Martin impressed criticism with their interpretations. Cliff's role as an oppressed soldier is similar to that of Robert E. Lee Prewitt in From here to eternity (1953). May Britt, Maximilian Schell and Lee Van Cleef performed notable secondary performances.
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