30 Dec The Best Years of Our Lives
The Best Years of Our Lives, WWII movie starring Myrna Loy
(1946) TCM’s Robert Osborne noted that “many people consider this the best movie ever made.” I totally understand … particularly if one is sensitive to the challenges that veterans face when coming home from war.
This was not the first time I had seen this film, but it meant so much more to me now.
Like my father Herman Allen, Fred Derry (Dana Andrews) was a B-17 bombardier. The most amazing scene in the movie (to me) was near the end, when Derry was at the airfield, walking among hundreds … maybe thousands of scrapped bombers and fighter planes. He pulled himself up into a B-17 and sat in the nose. It was surreal … to him and to me.
I watch it over and over.
The Best Years of Our Lives on amazon.com
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