Directed by Fred Zinnemann
Actor Marlon Brando’s carefully considered first feature (following his phenomenal Broadway success in “A Streetcar Named Desire”) was this thoughtful portrait of post-WWII wounded veterans returning to an America ambivalent about their role in civilian life. Shot in a Birmingham veterans’ hospital, and featuring many of the actual patients as actors, the film was a sobering look behind the trappings of military victory.
United Artists. Producer: Stanley Kramer. Screenwriter: Carl Foreman. Cinematographer: Robert de Grasse. Editor: Harry Gerstad. Cast: Marlon Brando, Teresa Wright, Richard Erdman, Everett Sloane, Jack Webb.
35mm, b/w, 86 min.
