The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)






Drama about the problems facing three ex-servicemen - a sergeant (Fredic March), a captain (Dana Andrews) and a handless sailor (Harold russell) - when they return to their home town at the end of World War 2.


Film programs

Illustrierte Film Bühne nr. 193
Filmpost nr. 182

Books on The Best Years of Our Lives

Sarah Kozloff
The best years of our lives
New York, 2011

Books with substantial mentioning of The Best Years of Our Lives

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Jürgen Müller
Movies of the 40s
Köln, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Paris, Tokyo, 2005

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Neil Sinyard
Classic Movies
London, 1993

Joel Finler
All-Time Box-Office Hits
New York City, 1985

Lawrence J. Quirk
The Films of Myrna Loy
Secaucus, NJ, 1980

Joe Morella, Edward Z. Epstein and John Griggs
The Films of World War II
Secaucus, New Jersey, 1973

Books with an entry on The Best Years of Our Lives

Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor
The American movies reference book, The sound era
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,, 1969

Articles with an entry on The Best Years of Our Lives

John Caps, Soundtracks 101, Essential movie music: a listener's guide, in: Filmcomment, nr. 6 (Nov/Dec), 2003 pp. 31-49