The Best Years of Our Lives
Release date 21st November 1946
Country : USA
Running time : 172 mins
Genre : Drama
Starring Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Harold Russell
 Screenplay by Robert E. Sherwood
Directed by William Wyler

Three soldiers of differing backgrounds adapt to civilian life after World War II.

This is the greatest movie ever made about returning servicemen and the troubles they encounter re-adjusting to civilian life. It basically follows the stories of three men : Dana Andrews who finds his wife a stranger and is at the very bottom rung of the ladder job wise, Fredric March in an excellent Academy Award winning performance ( Myrna Loy plays his welcoming wife) takes to drink after the terrors of war he has seen, changed by that experience he gives the benefit of the doubt to ex GIs and most moving of all Harold Russell as a soldier who has lost his hands who discovers his girl loves him nevertheless. Directed by William Wyler and produced by Samuel Goldwyn this was definitely the finest film either of them were ever involved in.

 

"One of the best pictures of our lives!" Variety