The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Passed 172 min - Drama | Romance | War - 17 June 1947 (Argentina)Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
Director: William Wyler
Writers: Robert E. Sherwood (screen play), MacKinlay Kantor (from a novel by) (as Mackinlay Kantor)
Stars: Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy | See full cast and crew »
Storyline
The story concentrates on the social re-adjustment of three World War II servicemen, each from a different station of society. Al Stephenson returns to an influential banking position, but finds it hard to reconcile his loyalties to ex-servicemen with new commercial realities. Fred Derry is an ordinary working man who finds it difficult to hold down a job or pick up the threads of his marriage. Having had both hands burnt off during the war, Homer Parrish is unsure that his fiancée's feelings are still those of love and not those of pity. Each of the veterans faces a crisis upon his arrival, and each crisis is a microcosm of the experiences of many American warriors who found an alien world awaiting them when they came marching home. Written by alfiehitchie
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