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The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Directed by William Wyler

Drama

Most recently watched by AllAboutSteve

Overview

It’s the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.

Rated NR | Length 171 minutes

Actors

Dana Andrews | Fredric March | Harold Russell | Teresa Wright | Myrna Loy | Cathy O'Donnell | Virginia Mayo | Hoagy Carmichael | Gladys George | Roman Bohnen | Ray Collins | Minna Gombell | Walter Baldwin | Steve Cochran | Dorothy Adams | Don Beddoe | Marlene Aames | Charles Halton | Ray Teal | Howland Chamberlain | Dean White | Erskine Sanford | Michael Hall | Victor Cutler | Claire Du Brey | Pat Flaherty | Jackie Jackson | William H. O'Brien | Bert Stevens | Marion Gray | Jimmy Ames | Carol Andrews | Mary Arden | Gertrude Astor | Edward Biby | Harry Cheshire | Sidney Clute | Tom Coleman | Joyce Compton | James Conaty | Heinie Conklin | Bert Conway | Clancy Cooper | Mady Correll | Roy Darmour | Hal K. Dawson | Lawrence Dobkin | Lester Dorr | Tom Dugan | Dick Earle | Edward Earle | Blake Edwards | Billy Engle | Ben Erway | Doris June Fesetta | Tennessee Ernie Ford | Louise Franklin | Harry Gillette | Dick Gordon | Herschel Graham | Earle Hodgins | Stuart Holmes | Ray Hyke | John Ince | Teddy Infuhr | Georgia Kane | Robert Karnes | Kenner G. Kemp | Donald Kerr | Gene Krupa | Ethelreda Leopold | Alyn Lockwood | Wilbur Mack | Susan Mann | Thomas Martin | Michael Mauree | Doreen McCann | Peggy McIntyre | Russell Meeker | Chef Milani | Harold Miller | Ernesto Molinari | William Newell | Georgie Nokes | Joe Palma | Leo Penn | Caleb Peterson | Norman Phillips Jr. | Jack Rice | Suzanne Ridgeway | Mickey Roth | Loretta Russell | Ruth Sanderson | Ralph Sanford | Noreen Sayles | Stephen Soldi | John Tyrrell | Amelita Ward | Jan Wiley | Marek Windheim | Catherine Wyler | Judy Wyler | William Wyler | Dick Gordon

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Viewing Notes

Dark story for its time but should’ve been darker if not for the Hays Code. Guess the seventies really made up for it with all the films of Vets returning home after the war. The too tidy ending was expected after all the depressing buildup.

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