Country: USA
Year: 1950
Duration: 87'
After returning from the war as a paraplegic, Lt. Ken Wilozek is sent to a veterans hospital. Locked up in his pain, the young man would like to let himself die but his love for his fiancée Ellen will save him from his desperation and give him a new life. Marlon Brando’s debut movie, produced by Stanley Kramer and shot by Zinneman, a director with various years of experience in the field, with a realistic style that borders on documentary filming, using actual paraplegic patients and taking advantage of Brando’s talents as a mime to underscore the contrast between his physical (and sexual) exuberance and his impotence.
Biography
film director
Fred Zinnemann
(Rzeszów, Poland, 1907-London, United Kingdom, 1997) was born in a city that, at the time, was part of Austria-Hungary; he received his degree in law but his passion for cinema soon took him to Los Angeles, where, already in the 1920s, he began working as a documentary filmmaker (he was an assistant director for Robert Flahery on Nanook of the North, 1922). In 1942, he debuted directing fiction films with Kid Glove Killer (1942) and he made his name during the post-war period, giving Marlon Brando his debut role (The Men, 1950), shooting one of the most famous westerns ever made (High Noon, 1952), winning an Oscar for best directing with the famous war movie From Here to Eternity (1954), receiving another Oscar in 1951 for best short documentary with Benjy. He consolidated his role in the years to come, all the way to his later successes, such as A Man for All Seasons (1966), The Day of the Jackal (1973), and Julia (1977), which won three Oscars.
FILMOGRAFIA
That Mothers Might Live (cm, doc, 1938), Help Wanted (cm, doc, 1939), Kid Glove Killer (Delitto al microscopio, 1942), Eyes in the Night (Occhi nella notte, 1942), The Seventh Cross (La settima croce, 1944), Little Mister Jim (La mamma non torna più, 1947), My Brother Talks to Horses (Mio fratello parla con i cavalli, 1947), The Search (Odissea tragica, 1948), Act of Violence (Atto di violenza, 1948), The Men (Il mio corpo ti appartiene, 1950), Benjy (cm, doc, 1951), Teresa (id., 1951), High Noon (Mezzogiorno di fuoco, 1952), The Member of the Wedding (Il membro del matrimonio, 1952), From Here to Eternity (Da qui all'eternità, 1953), Oklahoma! (id., 1955), A Hatful of Rain (Un cappello pieno di pioggia, 1957), The Nun’s Story (La storia di una monaca, 1959), The Sundowners (I nomadi (, 1960), Behold a Pale Horse (...e venne il giorno della vendetta, 1964), A Man for All Seasons (Un uomo per tutte le stagioni, 1966), The Day of the Jackal (Il giorno dello sciacallo, 1973), Julia (Giulia, 1977), Five Days One Summer (Cinque giorni una estate, 1982).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Fred Zinnemann. SCRENPLAY: Carl Foreman. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Robert De Grasse. EDITING: Harry W. Gerstad. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Rudolph Sternad. MUSIC: Dimitri Tiomkin. CAST: Marlon Brando, Teresa Wright, Everett Sloane, Jack Webb, Richard Erdman, Arthur Jurado, Virginia Farmer, Dorothy Tree, Howard St. John. PRODUCTION: Stanley Kramer per Stanley Kramer Productions.
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