Stars: Robert Taylor, Richard Todd, Dana Wynter, Edmund O'Brien, Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin, Hope Lange, Barbara Rush, May Britt

Director: Edward Dmytryk

Summary: A double pack featuring 'D-Day, The Sixth Of June' which is set against the violent backdrop of the invasion of Normandy, this film tells of two soldiers in love with the same woman. An American G.I. falls in love with the wife of a British commando who is away fighting in Africa and 'Young Lions' in which a young German officer caught up in the Second World War prepares himself for defeat. Meanwhile two American soldiers fight with the Allies to retake France.

A double feature of films centred around the conflicts--both political and personal--of World War II. D-DAY: THE SIXTH OF JUNE tells the undeniably compelling story of the famous Normandy invasion, this time through the device of two officers (Robert Taylor, Richard Todd) facing the coming battle while reminiscing about their love for the same woman. THE YOUNG LIONS stars Marlon Brando as a German ski instructor who idealistically joins Hitler's army, fights in the North African desert, and gradually loses faith in his country and humanity in general. Parallel stories take place across the Atlantic, as a draft-dodging Broadway star (Dean Martin) wrestles with his conscience and a sensitive Jewish draftee (Montgomery Clift) encounters anti-Semitism both from his fellow G.I.s and the parents of the girl he loves (Hope Lange).

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A World War II double-bill comes to DVD with the pairing of The Young Lions (1958) and D-Day the Sixth of June (1956).

Edward Dmytryk's The Young Lions is one of the most thoughtful films about the War. Based on a novel by Irwin Shaw, it 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 re-evaluating his beliefs. Legend has it that Clift accused Brando of bleeding-heart excessiveness. Interestingly, the two Method actors share no scenes together. --Tom Keogh

D-Day the Sixth of June is a misleading title for a very tame wartime romance with barely 10 minutes of combat in the last reel. What we mostly get is a year's worth of flashbacks depicting the reluctant, London-based affair of a married US staff officer (Robert Taylor) and a British Red Cross worker (Dana Wynter) whose commando suitor (Richard Todd) is fighting in Africa. To be sure, the emotional desperation and embattled decency of good people in time of war is as worthy of film treatment as any military campaign, and the script works pre-invasion Anglo-American tensions into the story. But the CinemaScope production is utterly formulaic, with leaden direction by Henry Koster. Wynter's porcelain beauty apparently didn't permit changes of expression, and Taylor looks about 15 years past his prime. --Richard T Jameson

Aspect Ratio:	2.35 Wide Screen, 16:9 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Theatrical Trailers, Scene Access, Interactive Menus
Subtitles:	Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish
Year:	1956
Release Date:	June 2, 2003
Runtime:	263 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	23468 D V D
Keywords:	Day, War, Double, Pack, Lions, Young, Sixth, June, Wide, Screen, D
Genre:	War