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Best Years of Our Lives: Movie

Excellent for the most part.  Frederich March returns and fights a drinking problem. He struggles to fit into the bank.  Homer returns with hooks where his hands were.  His sweetheart still loves him, but he can't believe it and struggles to let him back into his life.  Dana Andrews comes back to a wife who wants money now, and Andrews can't find a decent job (he was a bomber in the war, and a hero.) Andrews falls in love with Frederich March's daughter.  FM is not happy--Dana is married.  Ending, FM is doing better at the bank, working for the returning soldier.  Homer marries his sweetheart who accepts his disability. Dana Andrews divorces his wife and is clearly going to marry Theresa Wright.  The divorce, initiated by Andrews' wife but completely endorsed by him, will allow them to marry.

Many very fine scenes throughout

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