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Classic 1946 movie "The Best years of their Lives"  

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8/9/2007 10:52 am

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Classic 1946 movie "The Best years of their Lives"

Last night I watched one of my fav classic movies, the 1946 post war movie "The Best Years of Their Lives"! Best Years touched me deeply and I found myself with wet eyes several times as I watched this movie. The touching portrayal of love and struggles to readjust to post war life and post traumatic stress disorder, before it was so named, are so profound for me. Myrna Loy is the iconic wife and Teresa Wright does a fab job as the desirable decent woman seeking a handsome if flawed man, played wonderfully by Dana Andrews. Frederic March is also great as the banker who has faith in human decency, and Harold Russell the sailor with hooks for hands does a great job as the troubled sailor who yearns for acceptance despite his handicap. This film reminds me that Hollywood achieves greatness sometimes. Another Review:

The Best Years of Our Lives is the first big, good movie of the postwar era really to sink its teeth into current U.S. problems. To describe the readjustment of three widely different war veterans, it discovers them as they are returning together to the same home town and watches them pick up again the threads of normal life. One veteran is older, a sergeant who comes back to a happy family and his former good job in a bank, yet still finds peace uncomfortable. Another is a captain, a soda jerker turned bombardier who knows no trade and is saddled with a<b> trollop </font></b>war bride. The third is a sailor who has lost both hands and must cope with an oversolicitous family as well as his own neuroses.

Producer Samuel Goldwyn, Director William Wyler and Writer Robert E. Sherwood have succeeded brilliantly in their examination of their uneasy veterans. Best Years has, of course, certain flaws: there is hokum stirred up with its drama; its 172 minutes are considerably overlong; its finale is miraculously happy. But it is an honest, adult and absorbing film. The acting correspondingly excellent, notably that of Fredric March as the good-humored banker, and Teresa Wright as his sweet headstrong . And though no actor, ex-Sgt. Harold Russell, selected of obvious necessity to play the handless ex-sailor, shows all the more honest when playing himself: a good scout who seeks acceptance and finally achieves that for himself and his girl.

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