Still As Powerful By Todays Standards

Rating: 10/10 (10 November 2004)

"The Best Years Of Our Lives" is powerful, moving, poignant and sad at times. It's overlong but its worth it because their is no excess. Three men return from the war and rehabilitate in their civilian lives. Al Stephenson(Fredric March) returns home and is handling his life very well with his wife Milly(Myrna Loy). Fred Derry, another one of the men has returned home to his selfish wife Marie(Virginia Mayo) but is now falling in love with Al's daughter Peggy. Homer Parrish(Harold Russell) returns home without hands but with a bit of bad results with his relatives and thinks his girlfriend Wilma Cameron(Cathy O'Donnell) is a bit depressed without his hands but she doesn't mind because of his feelings and inspiration. This film has admiring characters and a great story. This film is no doubt a 10.