when I go home I'd find her there, waiting for me, in a wheelchair.“ He can't promise that everything will work out with Ellen, but if she loves Ken, and he behaves, chances are good. Anyway, he says, Ken has a lot of living to do, and he has to do it for himself. Ken drives to Ellen's parents' home, some distance from the hospital, takes out his wheelchair and goes up the steep brick front walk until a step blocks him. Ellen comes out. “You've come a long way,” she says. “Do you want me to help you up the steps?” He replies, “Please.” The film ends in a long shot of Ellen helping him to push his wheelchair into the house. Cast Marlon Brando as Ken Wilocek Teresa Wright as Ellen Everett Sloane as Dr. Brock Jack Webb as Norm Richard Erdman as Leo Arthur Jurado as Angel Virginia Farmer as Nurse Robbins Dorothy Tree as Ellen's Mother Howard St. John as Ellen's Father Many of the patients and staff at the Birmingham Veterans Administration Hospital” in Van Nuys, California, where much of the picture was filmed. Production According to TCM.com “In addition to Arthur Jurado, a real-life paraplegic who was given a sizable speaking role, many others from Birmingham Hospital were added to the cast, including Dr. Norman Karr, physical therapist Helen Winston and nurses Rhoda Cormeny and Eunice Newberry.” In an October 16, 1949 New York Times article, “Grim Masquerade”, Gladwin Hill described how Brando was spending a month at the hospital, adding that writer Carl Foreman had spent longer than that. Before the film's release, Director Fred Zinneman wrote an article titled “On Using Non-Actors in Pictures” for the January 8, 1950, edition of The New York Times. He describes the process of working with the men and choosing those who would appear in the picture, especially Jurado. Zinneman wrote that “All of the situations and dialogue in the script of The Men were written by Carl Foreman from material that he picked up from the men themselves while spending weeks with them ... Reception The film was banned in the United Kingdom because of a scene in which Dr. Brock speaks to a group of wives, mothers, fiancées and girlfriends of patients. The subject of having children (and, by implication, sexual relations) with a paraplegic husband is discussed, and Brock tells them that the