The lives of three very different soldiers and their growing disdain and disillusion of World War II and how it begin's to change their outlook on life. Jewish-American Noah Ackerman (Montgomery Clift) has to deal with the growing sense of anti-antisemitism from home, German soldier Christian Diestl (Marlon Brando) begins to despise the German cause and one time joker Michael Whiteacre (Dean Martin) is transformed into a no nonsense soldier.

The lives of three very different soldiers and their growing disdain and disillusion of World War II and how it begin's to change their outlook on life. Jewish-American Noah Ackerman (Montgomery Clift) has to deal with the growing sense of anti-antisemitism from home, German soldier Christian Diestl (Marlon Brando) begins to despise the German cause and one time joker Michael Whiteacre (Dean Martin) is transformed into a no nonsense soldier.

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