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Based on research in a California veterans' hospital, Carl Foreman's script follows the daily life of a hospital for paraplegics: the routine, the physical trials, the mental scars. Much of it is bitter, engrossing stuff. Yet, as the paralyzed veterans fling barbed wisecracks at one another and their attendants, or cynically make light of their own condition, some of it is startlingly funny...
...Production Chief Dore Schary,* the film begins by picturing the petty domestic frictions and foibles of Joe Smith (James Whitmore), a California aircraft worker, his pregnant wife (Nancy Davis) and their ten-year-old son (Gary Gray). Joe is sympathetic but short-tempered; he chafes at routine, hates his foreman (Art Smith), grimaces at his wife's box lunches, fumes at his stalling jalopy. One evening, in the Smith living room, the Voice breaks into a radio program to say: "This is God. I will be with you for the next few days." The rest of the world...
Just about everybody on the public payroll pitched in, from the municipal cuspidor cleaners to the foreman of vacuum cleaners at the county courthouse. Women were exempted, apparently because the Hague machine never gave anything but small jobs with niggardly salaries to women; policemen below the rank of detective were assessed a flat $60 instead of a percentage of their...
...opponents charged him with Communist association with a zest worthy of Senator Joe McCarthy. Full-page ads howled that Graham was a supporter of FEPC, and that he had addressed unsegregated meetings. Voters were asked darkly if they wanted their sons working under a Negro foreman. Thousands received postcards mailed from New York City extolling what Graham had done for Negroes, with the signature: "W. Wite, executive secretary, National Society for the Advancement of the Colored Race."*Against such tactics Graham felt forced to play down his Fair Dealing as much as possible. Though he had served on Harry Truman...
...bore the name Coche México. There was a Los Angeles war veteran driving a 13-year-old Cord, a red-haired torch singer from Mexico City, a Texas grandmother sponsored by a brassiere manufacturer, and a 70-year-old Arizona widow with her 72-year-old ranch foreman...