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    The Men (1950) [Re-UP]

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    Date: 3 Jan 2016 01:02:00
    The Men (1950) [Re-UP]

    The Men (1950)
    DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | 01:26:42 | 4,43 Gb
    Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: None
    Genre: Drama

    Director: Fred Zinnemann
    Stars: Marlon Brando, Teresa Wright, Everett Sloane

    Marlon Brando set the mark for a brilliant career in Stanley Kramer's THE MEN, his motion picture debut. As a war veteran paralyzed in combat, he returns home to face the torturous ordeal of rehabilitation. The courage and strength of the soldier are betrayed by the fear and insecurity of the man when he learns he will never walk again. Embittered by his condition, he refuses to see his fiancee and sinks into a solitary world of hatred and hostility. Fighting the wishes of her parents, the coldness of a guilt-ridden society and her own self-doubts, it is she who must force him to confront the reality of his condition and break his physical and emotional confinement. When feeling starts to return to his legs, it could be his last hope…or his final downfall.

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    When director Fred Zinnemann left MGM Studios after his contract expired with Act of Violence in 1949, he embarked on a new career as an independent filmmaker. After trying to find a suitable movie project for almost a year, his search ended when two young filmmakers, Stanley Kramer and Carl Foreman, pitched him a story about paralyzed war veterans entitled The Men (1950). It was obvious that no major studio would tackle such an uncommercial subject but Zinnemann saw great possibilities in Carl Foreman's screenplay and agreed to direct.

    The Men (1950) [Re-UP]

    Set in a hospital ward full of young men, crippled by their war injuries, The Men addressed several postwar problems that Americans preferred to ignore. What happened to these soldiers who went off to fight for their country and came back mutilated or paralyzed, unable to return to their former jobs, deserted by their wives or girlfriends, forgotten by former friends? How do they readjust to a society that seems to hold no future for them? At the core of the film is an emotionally intense performance by Marlon Brando as an embittered paraplegic who is unable to come to terms with his shattered body or his fiancee (Teresa Wright), who still wants to marry him.

    The Men (1950) [Re-UP]

    The Men was Brando's film debut and he was an inspired choice for the lead. The director recalls his impressions of the actor in Fred Zinnemann: An Autobiography (Charles Scribner's Sons): "Brando arrived. He seemed fine, if a bit surly and very much on the defensive. It was obvious that he didn't trust any one of us and that he was determined to keep his own counsel. He was still very much the Stanley Kowalski of A Streetcar Named Desire, stuck in that character, and he brought some of that into his performance in The Men. It was fascinating to see how deeply the 'Method' actors would merge into the characters they are playing and how long it took before they could return to being themselves again….

    The Men (1950) [Re-UP]

    It took a bit of time to get used to Brando. Things were difficult for him and he was under enormous strain, having to adjust to the new medium. And why not? People of such enormous talent should be allowed some extra elbow room….This was the way Brando prepared himself: he spent three weeks - day and night - living with the men on one of the paraplegic wards. He found out not only how they moved and behaved, but how they felt and what they thought. They gradually accepted him as one of their own and he became one of them. He shared their physiotherapy, played water polo with them and went to their drinking sessions at the Pump Room. Soon only a doctor or a nurse could tell that he was not a paraplegic."

    The Men (1950) [Re-UP]

    Prior to the actual filming of The Men, Zinnemann spent many weeks at the Birmingham Veterans Hospital in Van Nuys, California, consulting with several patients, three of whom were hired as technical advisors. One of these was Bud Woziak, a first lieutenant who had been hit in the back by a bullet while on combat patrol; screenwriter Carl Foreman used him as the model for Brando's character. Several paraplegics were also hired for the supporting roles, such as Arthur Jurado, who has a very natural, charismatic screen presence. Other standout performances include Everett Sloane, a former member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre, in the key role of Dr. Bors, as well as Teresa Wright, Richard Erdman, and Jack Webb, who made his film debut two years earlier in He Walked By Night and had just launched his new TV series, Dragnet.

    The Men (1950) [Re-UP]

    Unlike the Oscar-winning Best Picture of 1946, The Best Years of Our Lives, which also touched on some of the sensitive issues faced by returning veterans, The Men was not a commercial success, though it did receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay. Nevertheless, Zinnemann remained proud of his achievement and continued to explore similar postwar themes in his subsequent film, Teresa (1951), which focuses on an emotionally disturbed veteran and his Italian war bride.
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    The Men (1950) [Re-UP]

    This little-known film surprised me with the depth of its emotional involvement with its characters. Conflict, pain, tragedy, suffering, doubt, and triumph are all present in generous and convincing doses, as we witness the travails of wartime paraplegics. Marlon Brando is excellent in a very auspicious beginning to his film career. We are really drawn into Ken and Ellen's tortuously conflicted relationship. Jack Webb is also very good here, which surprised me in light of his storied woodenness as Joe Friday (I guess that was just part of his characterization of the detective). Another round of kudos to American Movie Classics for bringing us this gem.
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