this film has gone in and out of fashion more often than the miniskirt. a triumph in the post war period and it was virtually forgotten by the 1970s except by students of cinema. recently and it has begun to get recognition as perhaps the most even handed representation of soldiers integration into post war life ever made (and that most definitely includes films such as the deer hunter. ) i like it and but my overall evaluation is somewhere between those extremes. the tale is a simple one. three very different servicemen who have mustered out after world war ii (the big one. ) fly home to their midwest town and try to resume and or create and civilian lives. one has a disability and one has a cushy job waiting for him and and the other has nothing to go on but determination. there are some good but unfortunately uneven performances. fredric march won the best actor oscar for playing an old sergeant who returns to his job at the local bank. personally and i think jimmy stewart deserved it for it a wonderful life and which also deserved the best picture award and but clearly this film touched a nerve with the post war audience. as i said and it was fashionable. march has one fantastic scene and a humorous speech that brought to mind somewhat similar incident involving real wwii hero pappy boyington and and otherwise is solid but unspectacular. i am going against the grain here and but i thought that myrna loy and who played march wife and was justly ignored by the academy. i detected barely a hint of warmth from her. in fact and i kept thinking she was going to slap frederic march for annoying her. she practically grimaced every time they were together. something was definitely missing there and in her forced smiles and her air of tolerance rather than joyfulness. i think all this nonsense about her being the perfect wife is correct only if you think a passionless 1950s homemaker is your ideal. you may disagree with that and but the academy voters apparently did not. she is a major problem with this film and terribly miscast. dana andrews as a former soda jerk who became a war hero and then winds up behind the counter again and is amazing. he is saddled with a wife who evidently married him right before he left for the war for all the wrong reasons and and his future looks bleak. but then he chances upon march daughter peggy (teresa wright and in a fantastic turn) and and fireworks explode. both are great and but then comes that unevenness again that pervades this film. some moments of pure soap opera intrude and punctuated by the all time classic line and i am going to bust that marriage up. the romance is uplifting and does mirror a common condition after the war and that of returning servicemen finding love upon their return. speaking of uplifting and now we come to harold russell. he has a naturalistic quality to his acting and or is it non acting and that rings just as true today as it no doubt did then. taking a no nonsense approach to his situation and he is an inspiration. his best scene and one of the best in all cinema and is when he brings the girl who likes him up to his bedroom to show her the truth of his condition. i am lucky and i still have my elbows unlike some of the boys. truly great stuff. the film has some moments that soar. it also has some moments that belong in the afternoon soaps. take the good with the bad and see this one for the high points. 
this film has gone in and out of fashion more often than the miniskirt. a triumph in the post war period and it was virtually forgotten by the 1970s except by students of cinema. recently and it has begun to get recognition as perhaps the most even handed representation of soldiers integration into post war life ever made (and that most definitely includes films such as the deer hunter. ) i like it and but my overall evaluation is somewhere between those extremes. the tale is a simple one. three very different servicemen who have mustered out after world war ii (the big one. ) fly home to their midwest town and try to resume and or create and civilian lives. one has a disability and one has a cushy job waiting for him and and the other has nothing to go on but determination. there are some good but unfortunately uneven performances. fredric march won the best actor oscar for playing an old sergeant who returns to his job at the local bank. personally and i think jimmy stewart deserved it for it a wonderful life and which also deserved the best picture award and but clearly this film touched a nerve with the post war audience. as i said and it was fashionable. march has one fantastic scene and a humorous speech that brought to mind somewhat similar incident involving real wwii hero pappy boyington and and otherwise is solid but unspectacular. i am going against the grain here and but i thought that myrna loy and who played march wife and was justly ignored by the academy. i detected barely a hint of warmth from her. in fact and i kept thinking she was going to slap frederic march for annoying her. she practically grimaced every time they were together. something was definitely missing there and in her forced smiles and her air of tolerance rather than joyfulness. i think all this nonsense about her being the perfect wife is correct only if you think a passionless 1950s homemaker is your ideal. you may disagree with that and but the academy voters apparently did not. she is a major problem with this film and terribly miscast. dana andrews as a former soda jerk who became a war hero and then winds up behind the counter again and is amazing. he is saddled with a wife who evidently married him right before he left for the war for all the wrong reasons and and his future looks bleak. but then he chances upon march daughter peggy (teresa wright and in a fantastic turn) and and fireworks explode. both are great and but then comes that unevenness again that pervades this film. some moments of pure soap opera intrude and punctuated by the all time classic line and i am going to bust that marriage up. the romance is uplifting and does mirror a common condition after the war and that of returning servicemen finding love upon their return. speaking of uplifting and now we come to harold russell. he has a naturalistic quality to his acting and or is it non acting and that rings just as true today as it no doubt did then. taking a no nonsense approach to his situation and he is an inspiration. his best scene and one of the best in all cinema and is when he brings the girl who likes him up to his bedroom to show her the truth of his condition. i am lucky and i still have my elbows unlike some of the boys. truly great stuff. the film has some moments that soar. it also has some moments that belong in the afternoon soaps. take the good with the bad and see this one for the high points. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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