The Men

(1950) In his screen debut, Marlon Brando stars in Fred Zinnemann’s Oscar-nominated drama as Bud Wilozek, a paralysed Second World War veteran whose injuries leave him unable to consummate his marriage. He returns to hospital and the care of Dr Eugene Brock (Everett Sloane), who helps him overcome both his mental and physical frustrations in this powerful film that tackles what was, at the time, an almost taboo subject. M,R,BW,, In his film debut, Marlon Brando plays Ken, a WWII vet paralyzed in combat. The tragedy leaves him embittered and despondent, and from his hospital bed he lashes out at the world, even turning away his girlfriend Ellen. Slowly, his doctor begins to penetrate the soldier’s psyche., Marlon Brando excels in his debut film role as an ex-GI struggling to come to terms with life as a paraplegic. This powerful film traces the painful stages of a man’s acceptance of his situation, as he finally overcomes his deep feelings of bitterness and self-pity and is able to accept the love of the girlfriend who has stood by him., The plight of US paraplegics is personified in this story of Ken Wilozek, paralysed from the waist down as a result of a war wound., In his screen debut, Marlon Brando stars in Fred Zinnemann’s Oscar-nominated drama as Bud Wilozek, a paralysed WWII veteran. Rehabilitating in the paraplegic ward, his fiancée Ellen begs him to marry her and he agrees, only to find himself unable to consummate the marriage. Frustrated, he returns to the hospital and the care of Dr Eugene Brock who helps him overcome both his mental and physical frustrations in this powerful film that tackles what was, at the time, an almost taboo subject., A study of a bitter paraplegic veteran and his attempts to readjust to life. Powerfully written., After becoming paralysed, a depressed war veteran struggles to adjust to life as a civilian world without the use of his lower body.