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The Best Years of Our Lives

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The Best Years of Our Lives
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NR,2hrs 50min
Genres:
Drama,Romance
Released:
November 21, 1946
Director:
William Wyler
Distributor:
RKO Radio Pictures
Starring:
Fredric March, Dorothy Adams, Myrna Loy  ...more
Synopsis: 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 with blue-collar Joes for the first time in his life, Al finds it difficult to return to a banker's high-finance mindset, and he shocks his ... Full Synopsis
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Bruce Eder, AMG 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 the home front to shell out money to be reminded of their ... Full Review
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Fredric March
Al Stephenson
Dorothy Adams
Mrs. Cameron
Myrna Loy
Millie Stephenson
Dana Andrews
Fred Derry
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