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The Best Years of Our Lives (21-Nov-1946)
Director: William Wyler Writer: Robert E. Sherwood From novel: Glory for Me by MacKinlay Kantor Music: Hugo Friedhofer Producer: Samuel Goldwyn Keywords: Drama, WWII Three veterans return from WWII, all finding it difficult to pick up the pieces of their lives: Fredric March, a bank clerk and family man; Harold Russell, a football star who has lost his hands; and Dana Andrews, a soda jerk whose wife has been unfaithful. Won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Supporting Actor, Best Screenplay, Best Score, and Best Editing, plus an Honorary Award to Harold Russell; received a nomination for Best Recording. Entered 1989 into the National Film Registry.
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CAST REVIEWS Review by Sid (posted on 8-Aug-2007) My favorite movie. Showing the trials of three returning veterans at the end of WWII. The three represent the 16 million who served
and had to pick up their lives after being away for years.
Won multiple academy awards and featured a real life war amputee, Harold Russell.
This movie can be shared by the men as not a chick movie, but has multiple love stories running throughout. A truly all time great classic, with Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews and Teresa Wright.
Review by Maureen (posted on 17-Mar-2009) A masterpiece and certainly the best film of the '40s. Captures American post-war civilian and returning veteran moods perfectly.
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