Word: paraplegia
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...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...
...Crossfire, Pinky, Home of the Brave) showed that grim truths and touchy subjects pay off, too. By last week the moviemakers had begun peddling a new cycle that some fans might find even grimmer and touchier. Already on the schedule were films about cancer (No Sad Songs for Me), paraplegia (The Men), poliomyelitis (The Young Lovers), smallpox (The Frightened City) and leprosy (Who Walk Alone...