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	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) at Reel Classics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		William Wyler's 1946 masterpiece, THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, is the story of three servicemen and the trials they face readjusting to society and their families after World War II.
		BEST YEARS' producer Samuel Goldwyn also received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award that year in recognition of the "high quality of motion picture production" which BEST YEARS embodied.
		Rather, BEST YEARS relates the story of typical characters facing the then-typical challenge of resuming their lives after years of upheaval, separation and individual growth precipitated by the second World War; it is about people in transition in a world in transition.
	www.reelclassics.com /Movies/BestYears/bestyears.htm (621 words)

	The Best Years of Our Lives - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Best Years of Our Lives is a 1946 movie about three servicemen (an air force officer, an infantry sergeant, and an ordinary sailor) trying to piece their lives back together after coming back home from World War II.
		He is engaged to Wilma (Cathy O'Donnell), but doesn't want to burden her with a handicapped man. His uncle Butch (Carmichael) owns a bar where the principal characters meet from time to time.
		Hedda Hopper called the Best Years of Our Lives, "The best film of the year." The quote was used in one of the film's posters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Best_Years_of_Our_Lives (1042 words)

	The Best Years of Our Lives, 1946
		Harold Russell, The Best Years of Our Lives
		I suspect that The Best Years of Our Lives had more credence back in its day, when the issue was clearly front and center.
		The Best Years of Our Lives was certainly a patriotic film, and any talk of the contrary would smell very Un-American.
	www.angelfire.com /film/oscars/bestyears.htm (707 words)

	REELINSIDER.COM - THE BEST YEAR'S OF OUR LIVES (1946)
		Lastly the main reason I think The Best Years of Our Lives is well known in awards circles, film societies and among historically oriented people who have never seen it is the fact it's nearly 3 hours long.
		Perhaps our current day lacks the patience necessary to soak in the joys of the cinema released with titles of such substantial length.
		"The best years of our lives," is both a celebration and a cynical commentary on the pain of transitions and change.
	www.reelinsider.com /bestyears.html (1319 words)

	ABILITY Magazine \| 50 Years: President's Committee
		Each of these presidents did not and could not forget their generation or those men who had missed out on the "best years of their lives" to fight selflessly for their country, democracy and the human rights of all.
		The Best Years of Our Lives, wasn’t just another acting job for Harold Russell because it was his story and the story of hundreds of thousands of other veterans who had lost a part of themselves to the great conflict.
		This framework changed in 1947, the same year in which Harold Russell won his Oscar for his portrayal of a young veteran with a disability, when President Truman wrote three identical letters to the Secretary of Labor, the Administration of Veterans’ Affairs, and the Federal Security Administrator, which advised these bodies to.
	www.abilitymagazine.com /clinton_50years.html (484 words)

	Best Years of Our Lives - DVD Movie Central
		The Best Years of Our Lives is a truly wonderful film, modest but powerful, made classic by coming along at exactly the right point in history to capture and reflect the mood of post World War II America.
		Having never been in a war myself, I would have thought that to be the best part of all, but each of these men is hesitant and a little afraid of their reunions.
		The Best Years of Our Lives is an important, classic American film that gets treated as such with this remarkable DVD release.
	www.dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/best_years_of_our_lives.htm (1250 words)

	Nights And Weekends - The Best Years of Our Lives Review
		The Best Years of Our Lives is loaded with star power and a message that’s still important to understand today.
		The second of the returning soldiers, CPT Fred Derry (Dana Andrews) had lived in the slums and had run the soda fountain at the local drugstore before he left to become a bombardier in Europe.
		His girlfriend lived next door to him and wants to continue the relationship, but he can’t find the ability to let her.
	www.nightsandweekends.com /articles/04/NW0400150.php (538 words)

	The Film Music Pantheon #4: The Best Years of Our Lives
		But this is retrospect, only possible after Best Years set a new standard for both film and film music, and after Hugo Friedhofer's 30 years of recognition among the 'pygmies' and philistines of Hollywood.
		Best Years is idealistic but not over-the-top in the way many similarly successful films of that era are today.
		I don't think our descendants (should there be any) are likely to use such nouns to characterize this generation's culture (assuming our putative descendants have any verbal skills at all).
	www.audiophilia.com /features/da70.htm (2635 words)

	Savant Review: The Best Years of Our Lives
		So convinced was Warner Brothers that audiences would tire of the subject, they held off releasing The Big Sleep for a year in order to shove their backlog of war movies through the distribution pipeline first.
		Best Years has several scenes where Wyler stages his action in deep-focus depth, disposing of the necessity to use cutting.
		MGM's DVD is the second time around for The Best Years of Our Lives, which came out from HBO video as a flipper near the beginning of the format.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s171best.html (1601 words)

	The Best Years of Our Lives: Film Music CD Reviews-September 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The point is clear: The country our soldiers came home to is the same, but their lives have been forever changed.
		The Best Years of Our Lives may have been producer Sam Goldwyn's greatest film, and it's no surprise that his choice to score it wasn't Friedhofer.
		In 1978, duputising at the eleventh-hour for an ailing Emil Newman, he was engaged by the Entr'acte Recording Society to conduct the London Philharmonic Orchestra in a world-premiere recording of Hugo Friedhofer's legendary score for 'The Best Years of Our Lives'.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /film/2000/Sept00/best_years.html (1696 words)

	Classic Movie Favorites - Top 10 favorite films - The Best Years Of Our Lives
		The Best Years Of Our Lives was voted #37 by:
		The Best Years of Our Lives, directed by William Wyler, 1946 - This is my all time favorite film.
		William Wyler is definitely one of the best directors ever and that may be why there are two other films he directed which are on my list.
	www.classicmoviefavorites.com /favmovies/bestyears.html (161 words)

	The Best Years of Our Lives
		The Best Years of Our Lives is a very interesting film made just as the Second World War had come to a close, and the fighting men were returning home.
		The film had won big at the 1946 Oscars, and for good reason, as it was both a melodramatic film, and a very topical one, as the story itself involved the adjustments that soldiers had to face upon returning home.
		The three men had never met before, even though all three were in the war, and in fact live in the same town.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/6710/98757 (346 words)

	goatdog's movies - The Best Years of Our Lives, 1946
		The Best Years of Our Lives is one of the greatest Hollywood films ever produced.
		The going wisdom is that families somehow put their lives on hold in anticipation of their husband's or father's return; the sad reality is that people tend to adjust to changes, and it's easy to get used to someone not being around anymore.
		Fredric March, who won the Best Actor Oscar for his performance, is stunning as Al Stephenson, a former banker who was a sergeant in the military.
	goatdog.com /moviePage.php?movieID=510 (1209 words)

	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
		The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) is producer Samuel Goldwyn's classic, significant American film about the difficult, traumatic adjustments (unemployment, adultery, alcoholism, and ostracism) that three returning veteran servicemen experienced in the aftermath of World War II.
		The ironic title refers to the troubling fact that many servicemen had 'the best years of their lives' in wartime, not in their experiences afterwards in peacetime America when they were forced to adapt to the much-changed demands and became the victims of dislocating forces.
		However, it could be argued that the servicemen also gave up and sacrificed 'the best years of their lives' - their youthful innocence and health - by serving in the military and becoming disjointed from normal civilian life.
	www.filmsite.org /besty.html (1541 words)

	The Best Years of Our Lives [3/10/01] - TimeZone
		These were the years just prior to meaningful inroads into automatic winding, and just after meaningful advances in metallurgy and shock protection.
		These were the in-between years when men were finally taking their watches out of their pockets and placing them forever on their wrists.
		While the Cal 89 played no significant role in those numbers that year, it would certainly go on to represent a major contribution in the years that led up to Pellaton's now famous automatic Calibre 85, the movement for which he is almost singularly known.
	www.timezone.com /library/comarticles/comarticles631964764786093750 (2769 words)

	The Best Years of Our Lives
		With an almost 3-hour running time, The Best Years of Our Lives has room for many insightful vignettes on postwar life, and although it often presents a troubling and pessimistic view of these experiences, it eventually affirms the ability of former soldiers to successfully readapt to American society.
		And this year it's make money." It seems that society has little regard for the men’s past and only cares that they now perform their necessary functions, irregardless of how different these new tasks may be.
		The Best Years of Our Lives ends on this optimistic note and gives hope that for returning veterans, the best years are yet to come.
	www.geocities.com /phesto_d/bestyears.htm (1899 words)

	Amazon.com: The Best Years of Our Lives: DVD: Myrna Loy,Fredric March,Dana Andrews,Teresa Wright,Virginia Mayo,Cathy ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		"The Best Years of Our Lives" is an Oscar winning picture that, at the height of the dream factory in Hollywood, stooped to strip away the pretensions of glamor and expose the sad, sobering truth that faced returning soldiers after WWII.
		It was an unforgettable experience for him, and he recognized immediately that "The Best Years of Our Lives" was obviously a deeply personal work for Wyler, where every scene, every frame, every note of music and word of dialogue, rang true with authenticity and emotion.
		The wonderful thing about "The Best Years of Our Lives" is that it still holds up beautifully in the year 2000, unlike a lot of films that seem awkward or stilted.
	www.amazon.com /Best-Years-Our-Lives/dp/0792846133 (2288 words)

	The American Spectator
		THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES is a cut above the rest for almost the precise reason Warshow trashed it: It reveals the precarious position the "Greatest Generation" found itself in directly after the war, perhaps before the full gravity of the war and its aftermath had dawned on the country.
		In the final scenes March is perfectly at ease with his wife, and is drinking "kiddie punch" at Homer's wedding, the crowd of civilians not throwing him into a spasm of nerves needing to be soothed with drink.
		The story of how they put it behind them and moved on to even greater things is as much their legacy as the long, deadly charges across the frozen hills of Europe and the island-to-island fighting under the scorching South Pacific sun.
	www.spectator.org /dsp_article.asp?art_id=6636 (1484 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Best Years of Our Lives: Music: Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		TBYOOL, recorded with the second incarnation of Cockney Rebel, had a hard act to follow.
		TBYOOL is a superb album, mixing the more upbeat pop tracks (Mad Mad Moonlight) with the darker songs (Back To The Farm, It Wasn't Me) which peppered The Psychomodo.
		"Best Years of Our Lives" is the definitive Cockney Rebel album.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Years-Lives-Harley-Cockney-Rebel/dp/B0000070QW (1016 words)

	The Best Years of Our Lives Summary
		The Best Years of Our Lives by William Wyler
		The Best Years of Our Lives is a 1946 movie about three servicemen (an airman, a soldier, and a sailor) trying to piece their lives back together after coming back home from WWII.
		The Best Years of Our Lives: The Best Years of Our Lives Summary
	www.bookrags.com /The_Best_Years_of_Our_Lives (235 words)

	DVD Empire - Item - Best Years Of Our Lives, The / DVD-Video
		Or are the best years of their lives a thing of the past?
		In my opinion, HE should have been nominated and won for Best Actor...his part is just as big as March's is, and it's by far the most difficult acting job.
		The Best Years of our Lives has everything you could ever want in a movie, very moving but never melodramatic, perfectly cast, the great William Wyler directing and beautifully photographed.It tells the story of 3 veterans returning home and how they readjust to civilain life.
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	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		IMDb > The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
		Factual errors: Fredric March's name is misspelled as "Frederic" March in the closing credits.
		Personally, I loved Homer and Wilma's story the best among those of all the characters,and the resolution is a simple, sensitively shot scene that lifts the whole film to a new point of happiness, gratitude and release.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0036868 (1080 words)

	Movie Info for The Best Years of Our Lives on MSN Movies
		The postwar classic The Best Years of Our Lives, based on a magazine article about the difficult readjustments of returning World War II veterans, tells the intertwined homecoming stories of ex-sergeant Al Stephenson (Fredric March), former bomber pilot Fred Derry (Dana Andrews), and regular GI Homer Parrish (Harold Russell).
		Having rubbed shoulders with blue-collar Joes for the first time in his life, Al finds it difficult to return to a banker's high-finance mindset, and he shocks his coworkers with a plan to provide no-collateral loans to veterans.
		The film won Oscars for, among others, Best Picture, Best Director for the legendary William Wyler, Best Actor for March, and Best Supporting Actor for Harold Russell, a real-life double amputee whose hands had been blown off in a training accident.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=87295 (382 words)

	Oscars - Best Picture - Encyclopedia FunTrivia
		"The Best Years of Our Lives" was nominated for eight Academy Awards in all, and successfully managed to pick up all but one.
		Gwyneth Paltrow was awarded with the Best Actress Oscar and Judi Dench received Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth I. However, "Shakespeare In Love" director John Madden lost out on the Best Director award to Steven Spielberg for his epic war movie, "Saving Private Ryan".
		Best Musical Score was a cinch, because the music is great from this film.
	www.funtrivia.com /en/Movies/Oscars--Best-Picture-3117.html (1867 words)

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	At-A-Glance Film Reviews: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
		The Best Years of Our Lives was one of the most important and timely movies ever made back in 1946, when World War II was just ending.
		A camera is plunked down in front of who seem to be real people, and their lives and thoughts and feelings are revealed with the sobering ring of truth.
		He won a Best Supporting Oscar for this film but did not make another movie until 1980.
	www.rinkworks.com /movies/m/the.best.years.of.our.lives.1946.shtml (382 words)

	Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946) - Review - Piddleville
		I'm not sure why, but this one has been sitting on my shelf for some time.
		Winner of 7 Academy Awards in 1946, including Best Picture, this is one award winner that easily stands up with any other film.
		It doesn't show us America as it was but how America as a country saw itself (for good or ill).
	www.piddleville.com /DigitalMovies/Review030_BestYears.htm (385 words)

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