The Best Years of Our Lives
Three wonderful loves in the best picture of the year!
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.
- Budget
- $2,100,000
- Revenue
- $23,650,000
- Production
- Samuel Goldwyn Productions
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Cast
Dana Andrews
Fred Derry
Fredric March
Al Stephenson
Harold Russell
Homer Parrish
Teresa Wright
Peggy Stephenson
Myrna Loy
Milly Stephenson
Cathy O'Donnell
Wilma Cameron
Virginia Mayo
Marie Derry
Hoagy Carmichael
Butch Engle
Gladys George
Hortense Derry
Roman Bohnen
Pat Derry
Ray Collins
Mr. Milton
Minna Gombell
Mrs. Parrish
Walter Baldwin
Mr. Parrish
Steve Cochran
Cliff Scully
Dorothy Adams
Mrs. Cameron
Don Beddoe
Mr. Cameron
Charles Halton
Prew
Ray Teal
Mr. Mollett
Howland Chamberlain
Thorpe
Dean White
Novak
Crew
- Director
- William Wyler
- Writers
- Robert E. Sherwood
- Producers
- Samuel Goldwyn
- Cinematography
- Gregg Toland
- Composer
- Hugo Friedhofer
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Andres Gomez
April 16, 2015
Another great Willy Wyler movie. The story, with time, is quite expectable but the characters are well defined and developed by the cast. Also, it is a good (and probably, too positive) review of the after WWII war lives of the US veterans. A must to be seen.
CinemaSerf
July 7, 2022
This is really quite a touching story, recounting the experiences of three American veterans of WWII who return home and have to adapt to their new, not always welcoming, circumstances. Frederic March is "Al" who returns to a senior position in a bank - responsible for helping other returning soldiers with loans to start to get their lives back together; "Fred" (Dana Andrews) returns to a far less optimistic outlook, ending up working for peanuts selling perfume in a drug store, and finally the …