The all time Wyler classic.

Rating: 10/10 (2 July 2001)

This superb 40's post war classic, tends to be overlooked these
days. When it was released in 1945, it cleaned up at the 1946
Oscars, mostly at the expense of `It's A Wonderful Life.' Both films were up for best film , best
director, and best actor, all won by Best Years'. Frederic March ,
and Dana Andrews along with an amateur actor Harold Russell ( a
real life soldier,who lost both hands in an explosion,) play the
returning soldiers, finding life is very different , from what they
remember. Myrna Loy is superb as March's wife, who has to keep
the family together while he has been away.The tear jerking
scene where March and Loy are reunited is magnificent. All three
men find that they have problems readjusting to post war life, not
least Russell coming to terms with artificial hands, and his finance
(Cathy O'Donnell ) trying to be too helpful. Sam Goldywn is quoted that he doesn't care if the film makes no
money at all, as long as everyone in America sees the film ,so they
will appreciate what these men went through. If any film is worth 10 out of 10, it is this one.