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The Best Years of Our Lives - Special Edition
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 2
EAN: 9786304696637
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 6304696639
Label: Hbo Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 28, 1997
Running Time: 170 minutes
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1946
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Editorial Review:
Winner of seven Academy Awards, including best picture, director, actor, and screenplay, William Wyler's brilliant drama about domestic life after World War II remains one of the all-time classics of American cinema. Inspired by a pictorial article about returning soldiers in Life magazine, the story focuses on three war veterans (Fredric March, Dana Andrews, and Harold Russell in unforgettable roles) and their rocky readjustment to civilian life in their Midwestern town of Boone City. Capturing the contradictory moods of America in the mid to late 1940s, this three-hour drama spans a complex range of honest emotions, from joyous celebration and happy reunion to deep-rooted ambivalence and reassessment of personal priorities. A movie milestone when released in 1946, The Best Years of Our Lives still packs a punch with powerful, timeless themes. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Before the movie, before the screenplay, a book-length poem
Many viewers of this great American movie -- it won seven Oscars, including Best Picture, for 1946 -- are unaware that it was based on a most unusual book-length narrative poem by MacKinlay Kantor, "Glory for Me," published in 1945.
In 1970, I was a lieutenant working at the Air Force Historical Research Center. The older historians told a word-of-mouth story how the book and the movie came to be. No doubt the story had been embroidered over many years of retelling, but here's the way ... Read More
Rating:  - After the war is over
I like this movie. It showed what happens, when the boys come home from war. It's very realistic. I recommend this movie.
Rating: - Picking Up The Pieces After WWII
I'm a confessed sap for old movies. But even among mid twentieth century films, this one is superlative. It was made in 1946, just at the conclusion of world War II.
Three men, unknown to each other in their previous lives, return home to the same town. Al (Fredric March) was a banker, but in the war was an infantryman in the Army. Fred (charming Dana Andrews) prior to the war worked behind the counter serving ice cream and soda but ended up as a Captain (bombadier) in the Air Force. ... Read More
Rating: - Best Years is the best
This movie is one those classics that you can enjoy over and over again. It is timeless in its telling of men coming home from war and the struggles they face. The characters and richly drawn and you find yourself caring for them. The men come home to a place much altered than when they left. Trying to get back into a routine with friends and loved ones, married couples re-adjusting to each other, parents and a girlfired dealing with the double amputations of their son and fiance. To the couple that never ... Read More
Rating: - Gem of American Film
This deeply moving, beautifully written and performed film, was a long-planned tribute by director William Wyler to veterans of World War II, whose heroic service Wyler witnessed first-hand. Posted overseas himself during the war, Wyler vowed that when he returned to Hollywood, he would make a film that paid some sort of tribute to the men he worked with. "The Best Years of Our Lives" is the fulfillment of Wyler's promise. Released in 1947, the film won seven Oscars (it was nominated for eight) including ... Read More
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