The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Country: US
Technical: bw 182m
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright, Dana Andrews
Synopsis:
Three American servicemen, one of whom has lost his hands, return home after the war and try to pick up the pieces of their lives in civvy street.
Review:
An astonishing film for all sorts of reasons, but foremost being the uncompromising way it dealt with the effects of the war on ordinary families, for the time at least. The level of craft is high on both sides of the camera.
Country: US
Technical: bw 182m
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright, Dana Andrews
Synopsis:
Three American servicemen, one of whom has lost his hands, return home after the war and try to pick up the pieces of their lives in civvy street.
Review:
An astonishing film for all sorts of reasons, but foremost being the uncompromising way it dealt with the effects of the war on ordinary families, for the time at least. The level of craft is high on both sides of the camera.
Country: US
Technical: bw 182m
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright, Dana Andrews
Synopsis:
Three American servicemen, one of whom has lost his hands, return home after the war and try to pick up the pieces of their lives in civvy street.
Review:
An astonishing film for all sorts of reasons, but foremost being the uncompromising way it dealt with the effects of the war on ordinary families, for the time at least. The level of craft is high on both sides of the camera.