The Best Years of our Lives
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Summary:
The postwar classic The Best Years of Our Lives, based on a novel in verse by MacKinlay Kantor about the difficult readjustments of returning World War II veterans, tells the intertwined homecoming stories of ex-sergeant Al Stephenson (Fredric March), former bombadier Fred Derry (Dana Andrews), and sailor Homer Parrish (Harold Russell). Having rubbed shoulders wit... Full Summary >>
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Cast:
Fredric March - (Al Stephenson)
Myrna Loy - (Millie Stephenson)
Dana Andrews - (Fred Derry)
Harold Russell - (Homer Parrish)
Virginia Mayo - (Marie Derry)
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Review:
When Samuel Goldwyn decided to make The Best Years of Our Lives, Hollywood was running away from World War II-related scripts as though the subject itself had the plague -- movies about men in uniform had been box-office poison since early 1945. The assumption was that returning veterans would be even less willing than those who'd stayed on t... Continue >>
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