The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

The Best Years of Our Lives

7.9	Listal rating
8.2	IMDB rating

Directed by

William Wyler

Starring (View all)

Myrna Loy

Milly Stephenson

Fredric March

Al Stephenson

Dana Andrews

Fred Derry

Teresa Wright

Peggy Stephenson

Virginia Mayo

Marie Derry

Cathy O

Cathy O'Donnell

Wilma Cameron

Hoagy Carmichael

Hoagy Carmichael

Butch Engle

Harold Russell

Homer Parrish

Written by

Robert E. Sherwood

Robert E. Sherwood

(screen play)

MacKinlay Kantor

MacKinlay Kantor

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"You know, I had a dream. I dreamt I was home. I've had that same dream hundreds of times before. This time, I wanted to find out if it's really true. Am I really home?"

William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives is a landmark post-WWII production. The collective Hollywood wisdom in 1945 was to halt the creation of movies with wartime themes. The movie-going public had just endured... read more

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Description: The story concentrates on the social re-adjustment of three World War II servicemen, each from a different station of society. Al Stephenson (Fredric March) returns to an influential banking position, but finds it hard to reconcile his loyalties to ex-servicemen with new commercial realities. Fred Derry (Dana Andrews) is an ordinary w ... (more)

Release date : 3 October 1947
UPC: 026359065729

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