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30 mar 2018 · The Best Years of Our Lives tells the story of three returning war veterans – Air Force Major Fred Derry (Dana Andrews), Navy man Homer Parrish (Harold Russell) and Army Sergeant Al Stephenson (Frederic March) – who get acquainted with each other as they fly on the same aircraft for nearly a day to reach their hometown ‘Boone City’ (a ...
Three American servicemen are returning home from World War Two. They hitch a ride in the same B-17 bomber that will take them all back to their Middle American home town of Boone City. The three men are Fred Derry (Dana Andrews), Al Stephenson (Fredric March) and Homer Parrish (Harold Russell).
8 sie 2024 · Dana Andrews portrays the dashing and bemedaled Air Corps Bombardier Captain Fred Derry, who saw action in the skies over Europe with the 8th Air Force. Harold Russell portrays Navy Petty Officer Homer Parrish, who is a double amputee, having lost both his hands in combat.
Beloved by critics and the public alike, The Best Years of Our Lives not only received rave reviews but became the biggest box office success since Gone with the Wind. In the acting department, there isn't a weak performance.
29 gru 2007 · “The Best Years of Our Lives” doesn’t use verbal or technical pyrotechnics. It trusts entirely in the strength of its story. One of the sources of its power is the performance by Harold Russell, the handless veteran.
The Air Force captain (Dana Andrews) returns to a drugstore dead end, plus a wife (Virginia Mayo) who prefers the decorated uniform to the traumatized man. The seaman (Harold Russell) is a former jock with blasted-off mitts, family and fiancée (Cathy O'Donnell) kill him with kindness.
Dana Andrew’s character, an Air Force captain, comes home to find his wife has moved out of his parent’s home and on without him. His aspirations are to: leave the war behind for a better life than what he had left to fight the war. His transition to civilian life is not as easy as he had thought it would be.
