Watch The Best Years of Our Lives (2012) Free Online

Release Date: 2012

Cast: Ray Collins, Teresa Wright, Gladys George, Harold Russell, Dana Andrews, Steve Cochran, Virginia Mayo, Roman Bohnen, Hoagy Carmichael, Myrna Loy, Cathy O'Donnell, Fredric March

Categories: Movies, Black-And-White, Americana, War Film, Drama Film, Family Drama, Epic, Ensemble Film

The Best Years of Our Lives is a 1946 American drama film directed by William Wyler, and starring Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, and Harold Russell. Russell had been assigned to the U.S. 13th Airborne Division when he lost both hands in a military training accident. The film is about three United States servicemen trying to piece their lives back together after coming home from World War II. Samuel Goldwyn was inspired to produce a film about veterans after reading an August 7, 1944 article in Time magazine about the difficulties experienced by men returning to... MORE

The Best Years of Our Lives is a 1946 American drama film directed by William Wyler, and starring Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, and Harold Russell. Russell had been assigned to the U.S. 13th Airborne Division when he lost both hands in a military training accident. The film is about three United States servicemen trying to piece their lives back together after coming home from World War II. Samuel Goldwyn was inspired to produce a film about veterans after reading an August 7, 1944 article in Time magazine about the difficulties experienced by men returning to civilian life. Goldwyn hired former war correspondent MacKinlay Kantor to write a screenplay. His work was first published as a novella, Glory for Me, which Kantor wrote in blank verse. Robert Sherwood then adapted the novella as a screenplay. The Best Years of Our Lives won seven Academy Awards in 1946, including Best Picture, Best Director (William Wyler), Best Actor (Frederic March), Best Supporting Actor (Harold Russell), Best Film Editing (Daniel Mandell), Best Adapted Screenplay (Robert Sherwood), and Best Original Score (Hugo Friedhofer). In addition to its critical success, the film quickly LESS