Jan 20th   
The Men***    

(US 1950)                         

A soldier is shot and paralysed in action, but the real battle is to recover his life with his paraplegia.
Fascinating early use of Brando in films (before ego and self-indulgence took over him) in what is also a slightly sentimentalised but still vivid account of post-war survival for veterans (with real life paraplegics among the cast), although its timing nearer to the start of the Korean War rather than WWII had a bad effect commercially.

Written by: Carl Foreman.
Producer: Stanley Kramer.
Director: Fred Zinnemann.
Starring: Marlon Brando, Teresa Wright, Everett Sloane, Jack Webb, Richard Erdman, Arthur Jurado, Howard St. John, Dorothy Tree.
Photography: Robert De Grasse.
Music: Dmitri Tiomkin.

Preceded by:
How To Make Movies*
(US 1918. 15m. bw. silent; A once discarded but enjoyably revealing staged behind-the-scenes look at Chaplin's newly formed studio, with brief inclusion of The Tramp and the definite air of him enjoying his new surroundings and those he was working with.; d: Charles Chaplin; s: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Albert Austin, and others.)