Loading...
Blog Details
0 Likes
0
Movie
Three wonderful loves in the best picture of the year! - The Best Years of Our Lives
Movie Details

Title: The Best Years of Our Lives

Release Date: 25 Dec 1946

Runtime: 2h 51m

Genre: Drama, Romance, War

Director: The Samuel Goldwyn Company

Production Companies: The Samuel Goldwyn Company

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.

Additional Information

IMDB: View on IMDB

TMDB: View on TMDB

Ratings

Average Vote: 7.8 (657 votes)

Cast

  • Fred Derry: Dana Andrews
  • Al Stephenson: Fredric March
  • Homer Parrish: Harold Russell
  • Peggy Stephenson: Teresa Wright
  • Milly Stephenson: Myrna Loy
  • Wilma Cameron: Cathy O'Donnell
  • Marie Derry: Virginia Mayo
  • Butch Engle: Hoagy Carmichael
  • Hortense Derry: Gladys George
  • Pat Derry: Roman Bohnen
  • Recommended Posts
    Gentleman's Agreement

    A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.

    Antonia's Line

    After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Antonia's late mother has bestowed a small farm upon her. There, Antonia settles down and joins a tightly-knit but unusual community. Those around her include quirky friend Crooked Finger, would-be suitor Bas and, eventually for Antonia, a granddaughter and great-granddaughter who help create a strong family of empowered women.

    Of Mice and Men

    An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.

    The Farmer's Daughter

    After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.

    No Time for Love

    Upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson river.

    Peyton Place

    In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion -- which resulted in her illegitimate daughter Allison -- by adopting a chaste, prudish attitude towards all things sexual. In spite of herself, Constance can't help but be attracted to handsome new teacher Michael Rossi. Meanwhile, the restless Allison, who'd like to be as footloose and fancy-free as the town's "fast girl" Betty Anderson, falls sincerely in love with mixed-up mama's boy Norman Page.

    State Fair

    During their annual visit to the Iowa State Fair, the Frake family enjoy many adventures. Proud patriarch Abel has high hopes for his champion swine Blueboy; and his wife Melissa enters the mincemeat and pickles contest...with hilarious results.

    The Dark Mirror

    A sister and her disturbed twin are implicated in a murder and a police detective must figure out which one's the killer.

    Waterloo Bridge

    On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.

    The Last Battle

    The plot explores the devastation of civilization and issues of brutality, hostility and isolation. Pierre Jolivet stars as the main character (identified only as "The Man" in the end credits) who is menaced by "The Brute" (played by Jean Reno) on his journey through a world filled by people rendered nearly mute by some unknown incident.

    Going My Way

    Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of boys looking for direction, eventually winning over the aging, conventional Parish priest.

    The Three Faces of Eve

    A doctor treats a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder.

    The Man Who Planted Trees

    The story of one shepherd's single-handed quest to re-forest a desolate valley in the foothills of the French Alps throughout the first half of the 20th century.

    Hyde Park on Hudson

    The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.

    Mrs. Miniver

    Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.

    Seven Chances

    Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday -- which is today -- he'll inherit $7 million from an eccentric relative.

    The Holy Innocents

    Somewhere in the spanish country, in the 60s. Paco and his wife RĂ©gula are very poor. They work as tenant farmers for a very wealthy landowner. They have 3 children. One is backward. The others can not got to school because the master "needs" their work. When Regula's brother is fired from where he has worked for 61 years, he settles down at their little place... An attack against the archaism of the spanish country of the 60s.

    The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

    Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer). Enter Karin, a 23-year-old beauty who wants to be a model. Petra falls in love with Karin and invites her to move in.

    All That Heaven Allows

    Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club friends.

    Great Expectations

    In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

    0 Comment