The Best Years of Our Lives***
(US 1946)
Returning US servicemen from the war adjust with varying degrees of difficulty to their old way of life.
Overlong and sometimes overscored family war melodrama, one of a pattern in the 40s, but with the benefit of topical post-war experience. Some of the darker elements of the story are sentimentalised, but there are lots of compelling, underplayed performances.
Written by: Robert Sherwood, from the novel "Glory for Me" by Mackinlay Kantor.
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn.
Director: William Wyler.
Starring: Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Harold Russell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Mayo, Teresa Wright, Cathy O'Donnell, Roman Bohnen, Gladys George, Hoagy Carmichael, Ray Collins, Walter Baldwin, Minna Gombell, Ray Teal.
Photography: Gregg Toland.
Music: Hugo Friedhofer.
Returning US servicemen from the war adjust with varying degrees of difficulty to their old way of life.
Overlong and sometimes overscored family war melodrama, one of a pattern in the 40s, but with the benefit of topical post-war experience. Some of the darker elements of the story are sentimentalised, but there are lots of compelling, underplayed performances.
Written by: Robert Sherwood, from the novel "Glory for Me" by Mackinlay Kantor.
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn.
Director: William Wyler.
Starring: Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Harold Russell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Mayo, Teresa Wright, Cathy O'Donnell, Roman Bohnen, Gladys George, Hoagy Carmichael, Ray Collins, Walter Baldwin, Minna Gombell, Ray Teal.
Photography: Gregg Toland.
Music: Hugo Friedhofer.
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