Best Years of Our Lives Drama Shines With Raw Returnee Tales
Edith Leslie Graham reviews The Best Years of Our Lives showing at the Hearse Theater. The 1946 Academy Award winner runs 2 hours 53 minutes and blends humor with poignant, true-to-life depictions of three returning veterans and their families facing emotional, social, and economic adjustment in postwar America.
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True Detective era film explores postwar lives and love
A captain, a sergeant, and a sailor return home after war and confront fragmented marriages, personal wounds, and shifting social worlds. Virginia Mayo, Fredric March, Myrna Loy and Teresa Wright star, with Harold Russell's standout performance illustrating resilience amid hardship.
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