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Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: UN
Release Date: 16-DEC-2003
Media Type: DVD
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: UN
Release Date: 16-DEC-2003
Media Type: DVD
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40 of 42 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
Fred Zinnemann finally came up with a script that Marlon Brando liked enough to leave the stage and head for Hollywood. And the rest is history. That script turned out to be The Men. Brando is Bud, a parapoliegic shot in WWII and recovering in a veterans hospital. Unfortunatly there is no hope for Bud ever walking again, a fact he refuses to except. This movie is an interesting character study. Brando shows here why he would become the most influential actor of the last half century. He briliantly depicts a man at tremendous odds with himself. The supporting cast of characters, Teresa Wright(Bud's love interest), the doctors, and the men in the hospital, are well cast. Fans of character driven dramas and Brando fans should get a kick out of this film.
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
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Format:VHS Tape
This film was Marlon Brando's first staring role in a film, and he provides a masterful performance as a veteran with a spinal cord injury who is coming to grips with his changed life. His faithful wife who displays great courage in sticking with her man through a very difficult time is also well acted. A little melodramatic, as many early 1950's films were, but very realistic. Based on the true story of the first US SCI veterans who were discharged out of the hospital to return home after WW II, it was filmed at a veterans hospital and some of the extras are actual patients at the center. The physician is based on Ernst Bors, MD who is considered the father of SCI care in the USA, and who worked in this field in the VA healthcare system for another 35 years.
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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Format:VHS Tape
Marlon Brando's performance alone makes the movie worth watching. His sensitivity to the character's pain is so visible that it's just touching to see. It's a great start to the unforgetable legend's film career. I really enjoyed it simply because of Brando. So if you don't particually care for him, then it's not really worth it.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Marlon Brando Is Stunning!
Marlon shines in his first feature film and this is one of my all time favorite Brando movies. An amazing job as a recovering paraplegic.
Published 3 months ago by Jason
5.0 out of 5 stars
What this movie represents TODAY
I have to say if you do not watch this movie and understand how important the meanind of this film is, you never knew a veteran. Read more
Published 13 months ago by AlanK
4.0 out of 5 stars
FRED ZINNEMANN, OPUS 10
A Stanley Kramer production directed by Fred Zinnemann starring the newcomer Marlon Brando. What a program! Read more
Published 17 months ago by Daniel S.
4.0 out of 5 stars
first Brando movie
Touching even though it is a little predictable. Supposed to be Marlon Brando's first movie. Watching the soldier evolved really holds your interest.
Published 21 months ago by david dietrich
5.0 out of 5 stars
Marlon's best movie ever ...
Everyone raves about Streetcar, but this one has always been my favorite. Marlon has never looked better than in this movie and I think his acting was a sign of how great he would... Read more
Published on May 18, 2011 by Peg D.
4.0 out of 5 stars
THE MEN
Nice story about ex combat veterans and how they have to face their toughest enemy, the wheelchair. An enemy they can't fight against with force of arms. Read more
Published on July 15, 2010 by OLDEBREED
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brando In "The Men"... A Legendary Film Star Is Born...
This is where it all started...Marlon Brando's one-of-a-kind film legacy...
Marlon's performance in "The Men" demonstrates his natural talent - a talent that is now the... Read more
Marlon's performance in "The Men" demonstrates his natural talent - a talent that is now the... Read more
Published on October 30, 2007 by LadyWriter
5.0 out of 5 stars
What War is really all about...
Marlon Brando (very, very young in this one) in his first major movie role really shines and shows us why cameras always loved him. Read more
Published on August 31, 2007 by Patrick Selitrenny
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fred Zinnnemann strikes again in Brando 's first Opus!
This mature and off-beat movie anticipated for years the awful and painful consequences about the reinsertion of a man in the civil life after having been in the War. Read more
Published on October 11, 2005 by Hiram Gomez Pardo
5.0 out of 5 stars
the men
I was impressed with this movie when I fist saw it in the 50's I have been a Brando admirer ever since . Over the past 50 years I have seen all of his movies more than once. Read more
Published on August 2, 2005 by Jack C. Lewis
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