Word: marlon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story of war-wounded paraplegics makes a powerful and moving salute to the human spirit; with Marlon Brando and Teresa Wright (TIME, July...
...Government expense, and a good-natured Mexican-American (Arthur Jurado)* who is trying to win his release so he can get a house for his mother and his six brothers and sisters. But the brunt of the story and its theme is carried by a sullen, embittered patient (Marlon Brando) and the girl (Teresa Wright) who wants to go through with the marriage they planned before...
...overexcited that it sometimes gets in the way of the action. Director Fred (The Search) Zinneman's sensitive work clearly places him in the first rank of screen directors. The film is full of fine performances, especially by Actors Sloane and Webb and Actress Wright. Broadway's Marlon Brando, in his first movie appearance, does a magnificent job. His halting, mumbled delivery, glowering silences and expert simulation of paraplegia do not suggest acting at all; they look chillingly like the real thing...
Broadway's 26-year-old Marlon Brando spent his first four weeks in Hollywood learning to live in a wheelchair with 31 paraplegics in a veterans' hospital ward. By the time shooting started on The Men, intense, moody Actor Brando knew, as well as any whole man could, how it feels to be paralyzed from the waist down...