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MOVIE REVIEWS
Wounded on the battlefield, Marlon Brando awakes in Now a paraplegic, he learns to accept his fate. _ His buddy, rage and terror to find he's paralyzed from the waist down, played by Jack Webb, accustoms him to hospital routine.
THE MEN
Cast: Marlon Brando, Teresa Wright, Everett Shane, Jack Webb. United Artists From the first sound of drums as The Men opens, you know you're in for an experience. You see the soldier. Ken Wilozek (Marlon Brando) shot, you watch him fall, you hear his voice from the hospital bed where he lies in an agony of pain and bitterness. "At first," the voice says, "I was afraid I was going to die. Now I'm afraid I'm going to live." The Men is a story of paraplegic veterans. A story of the soldiers who didn't die — or, at least, who only died a little. Paraplegics are immobilized from the waist down; they're sentenced to life in wheel chairs. They're sentenced to trying to make their way in a world which can only pity, and stare, and never understand. The rehabilitation of such men is the basis of this picture. All the acting is magnificent — Everett Sloane's, as the doctor who works his heart out, knowing he can never do enough; Brando's, as the particular boy whose problems are singled out for discussion; Teresa Wright's, as his fiancee. And the men themselves are magnificent— at once hopeful and hopeless, sweet, and cynical, funny in the bawdy way of soldiers. "Old bladder and bowels" Brock, they call the doctor. "If you wasn't so sexy, you'd remind me of my mother," they say to a skinny little old nurse. The Men is both heart-breaking and inspiring. In evaluating the human spirit, it says many things. It says there are men who have suffered too much, and are brave beyond belief. It says we must not forget their sacrifice, nor accept their broken lives lightly.
Doctor Everett Sloane urges them to marry. Finally, haying found the courage to start a new life, Marlon consents.