TCM Comments on the Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

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  • @carolelinda6476
    @carolelinda6476 6 месяцев назад +4

    I've watched this movie countless times and still consider it one of the best movies ever made. By the time of the wedding scene I am always in tears.

  • @kueagle1
    @kueagle1 4 года назад +64

    I am a veteran of two wars, Desert Storm and iraq. That movie captured the feelings I had coming home both times. The movie put me back in time like nothing else I have ever experienced.

    • @edgaraquino2324
      @edgaraquino2324 2 года назад +4

      Thank you for your service!

    • @EmperorStarscream
      @EmperorStarscream 2 года назад

      Did your wife use you for your service paycheck, then dump you when you got home too?

    • @TDL-xg5nn
      @TDL-xg5nn Год назад

      And Iraq was a picnic compared to WW2.

    • @patrick4662
      @patrick4662 Год назад

      Thank you, and I wish you peace

  • @douglasj53
    @douglasj53 6 лет назад +113

    One of the most moving films I've ever seen. I still cry at Wilma helping Homer get ready for bed.

    • @bettestardust007
      @bettestardust007 5 лет назад +8

      Doug Johnson Me too...

    • @stangray393
      @stangray393 3 года назад +4

      Me too

    • @custardflan
      @custardflan 3 года назад +6

      Billy Wilder said it's the only movie thst ever made him cry. He said it started when Homer waved to the other guys leaving in the taxi.

    • @GoodmanMIke59
      @GoodmanMIke59 2 года назад +6

      I cry at Fred's father reading the citations from General Doolittle. Roman Bohnen. Next time you watch the movie, watch how Hortense even looks away from the dad, a man who must have suffered during World War One and was now a drunk. They never bring up why the dad is with a woman named Hortense, not Fred's mother, which is perfectly understandable, minor detail.

    • @GeneRogers-xl9um
      @GeneRogers-xl9um 2 года назад +3

      That’s a fantastic screen very few others can achieve! Amazingly touching, sensitive and full of love. I am always moved to tears by this scene.

  • @debbychapmandavis8778
    @debbychapmandavis8778 7 лет назад +73

    One of the best movies I've ever seen.

  • @billd8838
    @billd8838 7 лет назад +67

    When I first saw this movie I loved it. I saw my father , who is a Veteran from WWII. I asked him about this movie and he told me that life was just like that after the war. I can only imagine what it was like for these men who SAVED THE WORLD.

    • @AuntieMamie
      @AuntieMamie Год назад

      Bravo! You nailed it. And Nrs Goldwyn would thank you too. But more importantly was your other remark. Such a sad state of affairs after that era. Everyone is so put upon. I’m 73 and started working at 13. I love my country desperately

  • @robbiejones9359
    @robbiejones9359 4 года назад +25

    I must add - the music was outstanding.

  • @claudiagibsonmusic
    @claudiagibsonmusic 4 года назад +78

    Still incomprehensible how Dana Andrews did not win an Oscar for this.

    • @eveholmes6197
      @eveholmes6197 4 года назад +18

      An underrated actor Andrew's was.

    • @petersurdo4984
      @petersurdo4984 3 года назад +19

      Dana was the movie. Great cast. Powerful but at the end it's Dana and Theresa who represents the present and the future.

    • @nstix2009xitsn
      @nstix2009xitsn 2 года назад

      BYOL remains, for my money, the greatest picture ever made, talkie or silent.
      nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2021/05/tonight-in-honor-of-memorial-day.html
      Andrews had a role big enough to qualify for a Best Actor nomination, along with March, and gave one of a handful of the greatest supporting actor performances ever, up there with Karl Malden in On the Waterfront, and Walter Brennan reading from the telephone book.
      This was Andrews’ Oscar, but it was not to be….

    • @kevinrussell1144
      @kevinrussell1144 2 года назад +9

      @@petersurdo4984 Yes! That last entire scene at Wilma's house just breaks me up.

    • @girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288
      @girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288 2 года назад +2

      The actor who played Homer was the best actor of all.

  • @davidhutchinson5233
    @davidhutchinson5233 3 года назад +32

    Every actor who played was awesome. Myrna Loy.....and Harold Russell, Dana Andrews and Frederic March.....and the stunning Virginia Mayo. What a cast.

  • @TheSaltydog07
    @TheSaltydog07 2 года назад +8

    I weep when i even think of this film. It remains in my heart. It's perfect in every way.

  • @globalspiritualrevolutionmedia
    @globalspiritualrevolutionmedia 5 лет назад +34

    The Greatest Post WW2 Movie ever made. I cried when Wilma buttons Homer's Shirt!
    The soundtrack music is so beautiful and very powerful.

    • @josephcarlbreil5380
      @josephcarlbreil5380 4 года назад +7

      Yes, Hugo Friedhofer's music is one of the best ever for a Hollywood film.

    • @loge10
      @loge10 2 года назад +1

      And it amazes me that William Wyler, who is definitely one of my top five movie directors, really didn't like the score and felt it was wrong. I couldn't imagine the movie without the score but I'd be curious to know what kind of music while I had in mind that he would have approved of.

  • @robbiejones9359
    @robbiejones9359 4 года назад +32

    Yes, indeed. One of the most moving, excellently acted movies ever. Powerful, dramatic, movie-making at its best.

  • @miamihurricane865
    @miamihurricane865 3 года назад +13

    In a 1970's interview Bette Davis said this was her favorite film.

  • @patrickjones7188
    @patrickjones7188 5 лет назад +44

    It wasn't Samuel Goldwyn who read the article about veterans having trouble readjusting to society after the war. It was his wife who read the article and then showed it to him. Goldwyn also had an interesting encounter with Harold Russell. One day on the set, he said to Russell "You're doing a really good job and we're all very, very pleased with you. When Goldwyn left, Russell thought to himself "What a nice guy." A moment later, a janitor who'd worked in the studio for a long time came up to Russell and said "I've been here 30 years and that's the only decent thing I've heard that son of a bitch say to anybody."

  • @alcd6333
    @alcd6333 3 года назад +18

    Don't miss this one. "The Best Years of Our Lives" is a powerful film about soldiers readjusting to life after WWII. The story by MacKinlay Kantor is also excellent.

  • @blane1814
    @blane1814 5 лет назад +18

    Beautiful film.

  • @unowen-nh9ov
    @unowen-nh9ov 4 года назад +17

    By veterans, for veterans. Read your uncle's memoirs, thank you so much Ben for doing three generations of great work.☘️♥️

  • @animalntelligence3170
    @animalntelligence3170 4 года назад +16

    I think one of the last credited actors, the actor who played March's character's son, died this year. He may have been the very last, most have been gone for decades.

  • @graybaby1962
    @graybaby1962 5 лет назад +16

    I love this movie. I think it is an ultimate of the vets coming home from war. It shows the up and downs of what they return to civilian life. Some society wasn't willing to accept the veterans return to home. It shows post trauma many of many what they when they served. It's a great coming home movie

  • @cynthiahawkins2389
    @cynthiahawkins2389 8 лет назад +42

    Yes, yes, yes..the music underscores this...and also the scenes with the other two soldiers. I recall (toward the end) the airplane graveyard, where Fred is walking, and when he gets up into the nose of the plane..and the music changes, becoming ominous and scary, as Fred's anxiety starts to rise, along with his memories.

    • @josephcarlbreil5380
      @josephcarlbreil5380 4 года назад +6

      Little surprise, then, that Hugo Friedhofer's monumental score should win an Oscar®. Just about the best film score ever.

  • @marilyntape508
    @marilyntape508 4 года назад +18

    I really love this movie 😊👍💜🇦🇺

  • @TRockett55IRISH
    @TRockett55IRISH 3 года назад +7

    Just a brilliant film well acted and is a timeless classic as a veteran myself like my father and Grandfather's, great uncles and great grandfather it's so appreciated.

    • @rafaelramirez1507
      @rafaelramirez1507 2 года назад +1

      Thank you so much for your service in this beautiful country of ours , and God bless you and your entire family from the past to forever , I feel so good inside my heart knowing of someone like you Trevor 👌🏻, also want to mention that I have this classic gem on VHS , sealed brand new and never opened, and that's the way it will stay till it's time to pass it over to someone in my family that appreciates a great beautiful piece of heart warming cinema film 🎞📽🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 🤩 🎥

    • @stevengermadnik3162
      @stevengermadnik3162 2 года назад

      @@rafaelramirez1507 THAT'S A GREAT GIFT TO GIVE.

  • @gerrybennett7705
    @gerrybennett7705 6 лет назад +40

    In my top10 even top5 best movies. I remember seeing it in the 60’s on tv with commercial interruptions it would take all night to see it but it stuck in my head as one of the greatest films of all time. Never gets old. Netflix needs to have it on their menu but I don’t think that will happen. Too much walking dead crap that people enjoy today

    • @mandolindleyroadshow706
      @mandolindleyroadshow706 4 года назад +4

      That's how I first watched it too. On Channel 11 in New York. For about 3 years straight when it came on I was there. After those viewings (and recording it on videotape) I saw it in a theater and realized the versions I watched were about 1/2 short of the original version. TV had edited the 2 and 3/4 hour film down to 2 hours.

    • @seththomas9105
      @seththomas9105 11 месяцев назад

      @@mandolindleyroadshow706 Yes, I had the same experiance. Saw it as a kid back in the 70's and then not until the Teens on TCM. GREAT MOVIE.

  • @ricardocantoral7672
    @ricardocantoral7672 Год назад +4

    The airfield scene is one of the greatest moments ever captured on film.

  • @mysterioustraveleravatar4791
    @mysterioustraveleravatar4791 3 года назад +8

    The ending always brings tears to my eyes so happy for Homer

    • @loge10
      @loge10 2 года назад +1

      And happy for Fred...

  • @scottmitchell358
    @scottmitchell358 5 лет назад +12

    My very best movie, bar none

  • @rockslide4802
    @rockslide4802 6 лет назад +14

    Outstanding interview with Mark Harris. I'm ordering his book pronto.

  • @Kinopanorama1
    @Kinopanorama1 6 месяцев назад +2

    These gentlemen fail to mention the importance of Hugo Friedhofer’s music score, which adds immensely to the bomber-graveyard scene.

  • @bernie4268
    @bernie4268 Год назад +2

    It’s a classic I can watch over and over again. I tear up when Homer’s little sister calls out “homers home” and runs to him. They don’t make movies with these values. They were different people then.

  • @rcwilcots
    @rcwilcots 4 года назад +10

    A great movie

  • @crimpcreep6887
    @crimpcreep6887 7 лет назад +31

    Harold Russell, only actor to receive 2 academy awards for the same role.

    • @ryandtibbetts2962
      @ryandtibbetts2962 6 лет назад +5

      Also the only Oscar winner to ever auction off his award.

    • @tiffsaver
      @tiffsaver 3 года назад +1

      I had no idea...

    • @SarasAnimals
      @SarasAnimals 3 года назад +3

      @@ryandtibbetts2962 Hé sold one of his Oscars to pay for medical treatment for his wife!

  • @mandolindleyroadshow706
    @mandolindleyroadshow706 4 года назад +12

    Here are a couple of other behind-the-scenes stories. 1. Wyler hated Hugo Friedlander's score when he heard it. Wyler felt it was too lush for the humble story he was telling. A fellow veteran friend changed Wyler's mind, telling the director to leave the music in. 2. After Wyler finished shooting the airfield scene he thought he needed a transition that wasn't in the script (it went from Fred packing his bags to arriving at the airfield). Wyler asked screenwriter Robert Sherwood to "come up with something" to bridge the scenes. Sherwood wrote the beautiful scene of Fred's dad finding the letter from General Doolittle that hailed Fred's bravery. 3. When the film previewed, Wyler and editor Daniel Mandell took notes assuming they would have to trim their nearly three hour cut. The audience response was so positive not a frame was removed from the film.

  • @GoodmanMIke59
    @GoodmanMIke59 2 года назад +8

    I read "Five Came Back." BRAVO
    1) it's impressive that Homer's father first helps Homer remove his prosthetics and then Homer goes up to his room, looks at pictures of himself having played football and basketball, and only then does the movie bring Wilma into the scene to help Homer.
    2A) This was preceded by the kids having annoyed Homer to the point where he shoved his arms through the glass to the door to the garage.
    2B) Let's not forget the tasteful introduction of Homer at the ATC. "What's the matter, sailor, crippled?"
    3) Homer was found after his having done "Diary of a Sergeant" which was dubbed with a voice other than his heavy Boston accent. It might have been worthwhile to get a voice coach, but that would only likely have intimidated Harold Russell.
    4) my understanding is that Harold Russell was, at one point, "directed" but then people were told by William Wyler to leave him alone, to let him work off his instincts.
    5) even the minor characters 4 superb. Roman Bohnen played a father who was probably a drunk from having been in his own War. The scene where he reads to Hortense recitation is one of my favorites.
    6) there are additional minor characters like Woody, Cliff, like the guy picking a fight with Homer in the drugstore, the foreman at the end. I enjoyed the few minutes with Bullard, the new manager of the drugstore, Sticky, Sticky's gal Friday, even the extras in the drugstore who were eating at the counter. And let's not forget Hoagy Carmichael. People were professional character actors who made a living doing these kinds of rolls, must have enjoyed this production.

    • @ericthered760
      @ericthered760 2 года назад

      I also have the book - great read and very insightful. HBO or Netflix (one of those) made the book into a documentary. I think it may be available on DVD.

  • @gsolomonla
    @gsolomonla 2 года назад +6

    Bette Davis commented that it was the best film to ever come out if the Hollywood Studio System.

    • @519djw6
      @519djw6 2 года назад +3

      Bette Davis would have known better than I--but for what it's worth, I agree!

  • @romanclay1913
    @romanclay1913 2 года назад +8

    Billy Wilder hailed TBYOOL as “the best-directed film I’ve ever seen in my life.”

    • @loge10
      @loge10 11 месяцев назад +1

      I agree with him. He had said in an interview:
      "This is the only thing I’ve ever seen where the picture started and three minutes later I was dissolved in tears, and I cried for two hours plus after that. That was the opening sequence in The Best Years of Our Lives. The moment that that guy without his arms was standing there with the back to the camera and the parents came out, I was gone. And I’m not a pushower, believe me [pause] I laugh at Hamlet.”
      That said I wonder what Wilder's favorite "undirected" film was?

  • @stephenspencer4672
    @stephenspencer4672 7 месяцев назад +1

    For my money the best war movie ever made. No battle scenes, just the aftermath as seen through the eyes of three veterans who survived it.

  • @vivis9946
    @vivis9946 2 года назад +1

    This reminds me of my father coming home after 24years in the Air Force. I loved hanging on him. I was 2 yrs old when he retired and I was the baby of the family. He never spoke about the war and wanted a normal home life. He was the happiest at home.

  • @MrTraderon
    @MrTraderon 2 года назад +6

    A true cinematic masterpiece. What's really interesting are the lengths that director Wyler went to invoke realism into this film. Remember the scene when Dana Andrew's father reads his son's letter of merit from the War Department? It's fascinating that Andrews has a stepmother named "Hortense." It's a small detail, but in almost every film made up to that point, a lead character would've simply had a biological mother and father playing in such a short scene - there wouldn't be any need to complicate the plot. Then the father's reaction after reading the commendation - extremely emotional, and stoic while taking a drag on a cigarette and the mother crying has to be one of the finest acted scenes in history, IMO.

    • @bernie4268
      @bernie4268 Год назад +1

      That is another brilliant moment isn’t it? He’s so proud of his son. Poor Fred is mixing ice cream with crummy pay while Stinky has got ahead.
      I also love the last line….”you know we’ll have nothing for years…we’ll get kicked around…” but they don’t care. It’s just perfect.

  • @romanclay1913
    @romanclay1913 2 года назад +6

    William Wyler had resonance with each of the three returning WWII veterans. Like Homer, he suffered a war-related disability. As a film director, he could relate to the financially successful banker, who returns home with a new perspective on those less affluent and like Fred, he experienced PTSD.

  • @michaelbradley7595
    @michaelbradley7595 3 года назад +15

    Wyler was one of the greatest film directors who ever lived. He made more actors deliver their very best performances than anyone else. The idiotic critics who say he did not have an "auteur" quality to his films are fools. As a story teller he was without peer. His body of work stands as some of the greatest films ever. He may not have had an "auteur" feel to his films because he let the story dictate the style and let his ego get out of the way.

    • @colleencupido5125
      @colleencupido5125 3 года назад +6

      Michael Bradley: Thank you, and I whole-heartedly agree. There is an hour long documentary/ interview of and with William Wyler-, made by his daughter- I think only days before his death by a heart attack. More actors and actresses have been nominated for Oscars under William Wyler's direction than Any Other film.director. And his films had incredible range: From Gothic Romance in Wuthering Heights, to Romantic comedy in Roman Holiday, to chilling thriller in "The Desperate Hours" to Romantic High comedy/farce of "How to Steal a Million." Let's not forget his most famous film Ben-Hur, that finally won a Oscar for Charlton Heston, who said in an interview that Wyler wanted his absolute peak of skill as an actor, every second he was onscreen. William Wyler- accepted the job because "It was my chance to do a Cecil B DeMille movie."

    • @gsolomonla
      @gsolomonla 2 года назад +4

      Let’s not forget one of his most outstanding achievements, The Heiress. In his adaptation of this stage, he managed to deliver a masterpiece with some of the best performances in film history, probably the individual best for principles Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins and Olivia de Havilland, which earned her the Best Actress Oscar, which is probably one of the best actress performances in screen history. Her facial expressions in those last few minutes should be considered legend, rejecting Morris to punish him for what she suffered when he abandoned her to make him suffer, feel the same pain, yet with that look that she still loves him and regretting this action as a big mistake, but can’t turn back and never will. It tears your heart to pieces. To deliver a huge story in the confines of an 18th century New York’s townhome, the house with all of its luxuries, amenities, and servants playing a major role in the the story, restricting and suffocating its occupants and luring the outsider to its value. Wyler’s production values are flawless in every detail from set design, the attention to detail, cinematography, and the brilliant choice of acquiring then contemporary classical composer Aaron Copeland to write the perfect score to match the character’s exhilaration of love and the cruel disappointment of rejection. Probably one of the most unrecognized greatest films of all time. A production need not be huge like a Ben-Hur to deliver a huge statement and perfection as a package. He IS the greatest director in screen history.

  • @broheme8922
    @broheme8922 2 года назад +3

    "Emotionally accurate" That's a great way to describe the movie. Very few of the relationships were one dimensional.

  • @jvarela965
    @jvarela965 9 лет назад +24

    This was one of best and most realistic film ever made about WWII. Most of the films of the era were propaganda films showing John Wayne single handed wiping out entire Japanese battalions . A good documentary on this subject was a film called " GOING HOLLYWOOD: THE WAR YEARS(1983)". Narrated by Van Johnson

    • @jerrybaustian5256
      @jerrybaustian5256 5 лет назад +9

      Some of those "propaganda films" were really excellent. "They Were Expendable" with Robert Montgomery and John Wayne comes readily to mind.

    • @Johnnycdrums
      @Johnnycdrums 5 лет назад +2

      @@jerrybaustian5256 ; "In Harm's Way" is great too.

  • @jameswinter6125
    @jameswinter6125 2 года назад +1

    Outstanding movie.

  • @nata3467
    @nata3467 2 года назад +2

    One of the greatest movies of all times

  • @mikentx57
    @mikentx57 2 года назад +5

    I have seen that documentary, "Five Came Back" and it is very good I very much recommend it. These film directors did not have an easy time and put their lives in danger a number of times. John Ford was actually on Wake Island when the Japanese attacked. Look at film that they shot during that attack. The camera is shaking because he was scared to death. He and everyone else on that island were thinking there was a good chance they would be killed and survivors captured by the invading Japanese. No one on the island knew that the American carriers were out there to fight the Japanese carrier group. -- William Wyler no only went on missions in B-17's. Including the Memphis Belle. He lost his hearing on just one mission. Imagine being up at 25,000 feet in an airplane with open windows. The temperature up there is -40 to -50F. You have to wear an oxygen mask all the time, If for any reason that fails you die. if your electric boots or gloves fail you could get serious painful frostbite. The aluminum skin of that airplane would not even slow down any bullet or flak as it came though the plane. Wyler came from Mulhausen Germany, now in France. He and his family were all Jewish and from there, As soon as the town was liberated he rushed to see his family. But they were gone all gone. -- But look at the lives these men made before the ware and after. Wyler before the war made Mrs Miniver and The Westerner, After he made "The Best Years of Our Lives". George Stevens made musicals before the war. After the war he made "Giant". John Ford's movies were different too. There was a lot more consideration of the Indian's lives in his movies. There is no way he could have made "The Searchers" if he had not been in the war. That could only be made by a person that had seen how savage people filled with hate, on both side, can be.

  • @tiffsaver
    @tiffsaver 3 года назад +8

    Correction. This is "The Best MOVIE Of Our Lives."

    • @brianboisguilbert6985
      @brianboisguilbert6985 3 года назад

      Strongly agree, I feel, the director, like Wyler , should be a Vet.

  • @laurenceesposito3393
    @laurenceesposito3393 3 года назад +5

    Thank Franz Warman for his blaring brass for Dana Andrew's scene without text.

  • @AuntieMamie
    @AuntieMamie Год назад

    Thank you for such enlightenment. I must read Five Came Back. I’m reading William Wyler’s biography coincidentally, and indeed “Best Years of Our Lives” is beyond compelling. I wish every American would watch the film and enjoy the exquisite score.

  • @JHarder1000
    @JHarder1000 6 лет назад +12

    One of the greatest dramas to come out the classical Hollywood studio system of the thirties and forties. Fully comparable to *Stagecoach*, *Dodsworth* , or *Make Way For Tomorrow*

    • @mandolindleyroadshow706
      @mandolindleyroadshow706 4 года назад +1

      Dodsworth is another William Wyler film. Based on your recommendation, I'm going to check out Make Way For Tommorow. Thanks.

    • @JHarder1000
      @JHarder1000 4 года назад +3

      @@mandolindleyroadshow706 Leo McCarey considered MWFT his best picture. It came out the same year as The Awful Truth. When he won the the best director Oscar for the latter, he delivered of the shortest acceptance speeches ever. "thanks, but you gave me this for the wrong picture.

    • @tiffsaver
      @tiffsaver 3 года назад +3

      I think that this is THE greatest Hollywood film, particularly about post WWII, ever made. It is timeless, a thing of lasting beauty.

    • @nstix2009xitsn
      @nstix2009xitsn 2 года назад

      @Joseph Harder But it didn't come out of "the classical Hollywood studio system." It was made by Samuel Goldwyn, Hollywood's greatest independent producer. And nothing compares to it.

  • @MarkEisenman
    @MarkEisenman 4 года назад +15

    I love this. But, how they can talk about that closing bomber scene with Dana Andrews and just talk about it sonically rather than talk about the amazing score by Hugo Freidhoffer. That’s a crime.
    Here with that scene is all about the music. The orchestra is the sound of the engines, the composition musically is what makes that seem to work. The fact you didn’t mention it at all is an offense.

  • @andreraymond6860
    @andreraymond6860 8 лет назад +14

    Regarding the so-called gap in his filmography. In 1944 Wyler directed two very influential documentaries (or docudramas) "The Fighting Lasy" and "Memphis Belle". The latter was especially important as a depiction of the bomber war. Wyler flew many combat missions with the crews of the Eigth Air Force, collecting footage for the story of the Belle. I cannot help but feel that the Aircraft graveyard scene was a very personal essay about his experiences, close calls, and the trauma of losing young friends over Germany.

    • @sura_huseynova_
      @sura_huseynova_ 8 лет назад

      This moviе is noooow avаilable to watch here => twitter.com/69ff531208f4373a8/status/795843375920316416 TCМ Cоmments on the Best Years of Оur Lives 1946

    • @jeangoodson4313
      @jeangoodson4313 7 лет назад

      Melek Huseynzade the account has been deleted due to copyright infringement:(.

    • @jameshouse1127
      @jameshouse1127 4 года назад

      Netflix has the whole story in a 3 pt doc called Five Came Back. It's a masterpiece.

  • @joycepiantes8383
    @joycepiantes8383 2 года назад +2

    This is the best post war movie.

  • @gregzowada9651
    @gregzowada9651 3 года назад +2

    My second favorite movie of all time......after the brilliant "Hail the Conquering Hero....."

  • @JohnColtrane2000
    @JohnColtrane2000 2 года назад +3

    it's amazing to me that they can discuss the power of the B-17 boneyard scene in terms of its sound, and neglect to mention Hugo Friedhofer's score -- which absolutely makes the scene in all the ways they discuss, a quintessential example of effective psychological scoring. that pressure inside Dana Andrews' head? that's the music!

    • @jamescameron2490
      @jamescameron2490 Год назад

      The score for that scene reminds me of the opening of "Twelve O'clock High."

  • @jonveranto7303
    @jonveranto7303 2 года назад +2

    1946 ... and we still have not learned sufficiently how to truly "welcome" combat veterans home. Given the extraordinary stress and impacts of warfare, maybe this is an impossibility. But, it doesn't remove the responsibility to make great effort.

  • @RZ393
    @RZ393 2 месяца назад

    Wonderful film with Gregg Toland’s deep focus photography, one watched countless times; losing none of its power after all these years.

  • @unowen-nh9ov
    @unowen-nh9ov 4 года назад +2

    Ben? Three Wives & Eve are back to back also. So you're related to Wyler, too. Thank you so much!

  • @joannoeldechen3795
    @joannoeldechen3795 2 года назад +1

    My dad is in this pix. He loved all the men in this film.

    • @kimberlyhortz6471
      @kimberlyhortz6471 2 года назад

      I am glad your dad was in the film. I enjoyed the whole movie. God bless you and your family.

    • @519djw6
      @519djw6 2 года назад

      Was your father an extra, or did he have a speaking part?

  • @animalntelligence3170
    @animalntelligence3170 4 года назад +4

    It was Goldwyn's wife who read the article.

  • @williamsnyder5616
    @williamsnyder5616 3 года назад +2

    I know I'm in a minority on this, but I liked "Mrs. Miniver" probably more than Wyler did. There is the classic story of Lillian Hellman coming out of the screening room at MGM and turning to Wyler and saying, "Oh, Willy, how could you?" But do we, as Americans, ever look at something except under OUR perspective? "Mrs. Miniver" was definitely a story of Britain on her knees. And, the scene where Kay Miniver faces the young Nazi speaks strongly for the terror of the day.

  • @dennisq2492
    @dennisq2492 2 года назад +2

    When I was a kid no matter what party you were you backed the president

  • @dennisq2492
    @dennisq2492 2 года назад +1

    And our country was strong because we had people willing to give their all for freedom thank God for those people 🙏

  • @custardflan
    @custardflan 3 года назад +5

    Thye should remake this with modern veterans. This is one of the greastest and best movies ever made about returning veterans,

    • @brianboisguilbert6985
      @brianboisguilbert6985 3 года назад +1

      Strongly agree, and the director, like Wyler, should be a Vet.

    • @echofourmike85
      @echofourmike85 2 года назад +1

      I want that too, but it is a razor thin edge to get it right. If it is done poorly then it will always be ridiculed when compared to WW2. I would hate that for our vets. Courage under Fire comes to mind in a typically PC/pre-woke flop from idiots in hollywood.

  • @carlpiazza1950
    @carlpiazza1950 3 года назад +1

    This is why people become actors.

  • @turiscaffidi6163
    @turiscaffidi6163 2 года назад

    Great film

  • @GrahamCLester
    @GrahamCLester 4 года назад +11

    An interesting thing is that the rich guy comes back from the war and gets a promotion, whereas the poor guy can't get a job and has to go back to being a soda jerk. Entrenched privilege. That's exactly what I have seen with servicemen returning from Iraq -- the rich ones got immediate big promotions and the poor ones had to start again at the very bottom, in spite of all their front-line experience and years of service.

    • @julianmarsh1378
      @julianmarsh1378 3 года назад +5

      This has been going on since the Greeks returned from Troy (with the exception of Agamemnon, of course)

    • @kevinrussell1144
      @kevinrussell1144 2 года назад

      @@julianmarsh1378 The Gods do appear to use us for sport. I pray that Jesus is correct in promising that the meek shall inherit the earth.

    • @julianmarsh1378
      @julianmarsh1378 2 года назад +1

      @@kevinrussell1144 To date, he hasn't been right yet.

    • @kevinrussell1144
      @kevinrussell1144 2 года назад

      @@julianmarsh1378 Data thus far say you are correct, but don't sound so gleeful about it.

    • @julianmarsh1378
      @julianmarsh1378 2 года назад +1

      @@kevinrussell1144 I am not gleeful about it but after a certain point in time one stops backing a losing horse

  • @johnguilfoil7534
    @johnguilfoil7534 6 лет назад +6

    masterpiece...the only maybe was....frederick march too old for infantry grunt? those kids were just that kids...22 was old

  • @gerrynightingale9045
    @gerrynightingale9045 5 лет назад +4

    *They 'missed the mark' of the 'scrapped bomber' scene...the 'Round Trip?' nose-art says everything...and the former 'Captain' realizes "I can't 'go home' again and if he'd had his 'Colt' with him...that would've been the finish for the 'Cap.'* ( *Obviously you can't put a scene like that in a movie, at least not in the America of that era...no one likes being 'slapped in the face' with the truth of what it means to face death every moment for years on end, to have been trained to rain 'Death from the Sky' and discover "I'm damned good at this! I somehow 'know' where the bombs will hit...and it pleases me no end to know how good I am at this" and return to a civilian life where he cannot function anymore...the idea of being a 'soda jerk' or 'department store flunky' fills him with disgust and shame, and finding his wife is nothing more than a 'conniving whore' who can't bear the sight of him because of his inability to find a job equal to his skills and experience* )

  • @rafaelramirez1507
    @rafaelramirez1507 2 года назад +1

    I agree Claudia , eventhough Ray Milland was excellent in "The lost weekend" , Dana Andrews was to me far more deserving for the Oscar Award , I mean ... Wow 😮, what a performance by him , as for William Wyler ... one of the greatest directors ever 🙌

    • @echofourmike85
      @echofourmike85 2 года назад +2

      I am not a fan of Dana Andrews but he was perfect in this role. His promise to Al not see the love that will make him whole again. A promise between men and veterans. That is powerful.

  • @odysseusrex5908
    @odysseusrex5908 5 лет назад +1

    There is another, similar movie, which focuses on a returning Marine in California, the title of which I cannot remember. Does anybody know what movie I am thinking of? Thanks if you can help.

    • @eveholmes6197
      @eveholmes6197 4 года назад +2

      Another film is Till The End Of Time. Starring Guy Madison, Robert Mitchum, Dorothy McGuire. The men are returning service men and adjusting and McQuire a widow that lost her man in WW 2.
      Lovely film.

    • @eveholmes6197
      @eveholmes6197 4 года назад

      Check my comment below.

    • @odysseusrex5908
      @odysseusrex5908 4 года назад +1

      @@eveholmes6197 Yes, that's it exactly. Thank you.

    • @christophermancini7380
      @christophermancini7380 2 года назад +1

      That's a great movie too, which I've only seen once maybe 25 years ago.
      I remember Guy Madison was very good as the returning Marine, frustrated with dead-end jobs and living in his old bedroom with his parents.
      Mitchum was also very good as his Marine buddy from Guadalcanal, who is suffering from a brain injury but has dreams of buying a ranch.
      And there's a third Marine who played an ex-boxer who's lost his legs in action.
      It would be terrific if TCM could show these two movies together.

  • @mikemccabe6258
    @mikemccabe6258 6 месяцев назад

    When he first gets home to his loved ones and can't hold his mother.

  • @josephcarlbreil5380
    @josephcarlbreil5380 8 лет назад +23

    Absolutely disgraceful that Mark Harris makes no mention of Hugo Friedhofer's magnificent music score, which is very much a part of the scene with Dana Andrews in the derelict airplane. Thumbs down.

    • @tylerolsonfilms
      @tylerolsonfilms 8 лет назад +13

      One of the most beautiful scores ever written.

    • @michaelterry1000
      @michaelterry1000 8 лет назад +7

      100% Agree. Years ago I read that it was a somewhat revolutionary score in that it used An American classical music style as opposed to a European style that was much more common for Hollywood films of the time.

    • @olejoe97233
      @olejoe97233 8 лет назад +15

      I don't know what the time constrictions were for Mark Harris' closing comments, but the music is exceptional. I was four years old when this movie was released in 1946 and was about 12 when I saw it re-released in a theater in about 1955. It was an adult movie, and I wasn't into adult movies, but this one stuck with me. And, I think the music score had something to do with letting a little boy experience an adult movie knowing that what I had seen was something special. I would watch it on TV whenever it was shown. It never got old. Each time I watched it, it made more sense. I eventually bought the DVD because it seemed wrong not to; I have just ordered two blu-ray copies. I always found it wrong that Dana Andrews did not receive an Oscar nomination for his role; he (to me) is the heart and soul of this movie. He was never better. And, seeing Teresa Wright again -- she was never a Hollywood glamour girl, but she may have been the prettiest woman to ever grace a movie screen.

    • @michaelterry1000
      @michaelterry1000 8 лет назад +7

      Interesting that you find Dana Andrews the Heart & Soul of this picture. I always felt it was Harold Russell. I wrote Harold a fan letter in the 90's. He wrote back and sent an autographed photo. The scene in which 'Homer goes upstairs' and reveals his handicap to his long time girlfriend is so brutal and comes off almost like a documentary. The photography and the music make that scene one of, if not the, most emotional scenes that I know of in cinema.

    • @josephcarlbreil5380
      @josephcarlbreil5380 7 лет назад +8

      The American classical music style, known as "Americana", was introduced and validated by Aaron Copland. Friedhofer's score clearly pays tribute to Copland.

  • @sarataylor8052
    @sarataylor8052 2 года назад

    NO IDEA he was nearly deaf.

  • @josephcarlbreil5380
    @josephcarlbreil5380 8 лет назад +2

    Those god-awful, grating American accents of these commentators.

    • @tokenjoy
      @tokenjoy 7 лет назад +18

      Hey bro, it's an American network talking about an American movie with American actors. Get used to it.

    • @pabcde.babcde.5741
      @pabcde.babcde.5741 7 лет назад +14

      Mr. Breil: But for the American
      generation depicted in the film, you might have had a god-awful, grating German accent, what?

    • @johnlorenzen4633
      @johnlorenzen4633 4 года назад +2

      Bob had a gentler classy voice.

    • @catherinelw9365
      @catherinelw9365 2 года назад

      Then don't listen, cretin.

    • @dwightargo9764
      @dwightargo9764 27 дней назад

      Actually here Joseph, it's not the American accents I believe you're protesting here, but more Ben M.'s nasally voice! (...and yes, which IS something that has always grated on MY ears as well, dude!)