SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Winifred The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Catherina If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

JohnHowardReid An article in Time (7 August 1944) about the return of injured veterans, provided Goldwyn and his wife with the idea for the film. Accordingly, Goldwyn asked Mackinlay Kantor, a former Air Force correspondent who had been stationed in England, to write an original story based on his experiences. Kantor delivered the result, a 434-page novel entitled "Glory For Me", written in blank verse, in January 1945. Goldwyn then handed it to Robert E. Sherwood to use as the basis of a screenplay.After shooting for more than 100 days at a cost of over $2,000,000, Wyler edited his 400 reels to 16 - 2 hours and 52 minutes worth. Even though he was frustrated in his wish to cut it down by a further half-hour, Wyler considered it the best film he had yet made. His technique is faultless: His use of the mirror stratagem re-appears, this time in duet for the comic purpose of doubling the image of Fredric March in the megrims of the morning-after; the window enclosing remote (and now relevant) action can be found in the drugstore sequence where it brackets the managerial office with the busy salesroom below; the sparingly-used close-up has a poignant effect when it rests upon the wistful countenance of Harold Russell or details Teresa Wright's shattered face, caught in a moment of anguish.A particularly impressive episode is Derry's visit to the bomber graveyard - Wyler composes a symphony for this scene out of visual and orchestral effects. The music is excellent, Friedhofer's musical motifs frequently growing out of the scene itself, be it Hoagy Carmichael's piano jingles, Marie's strident radio, or the jungle rhythms of a nightclub band.

sol- Readjusting to civilian life proves challenging for three World War II veterans in this sombre drama from William Wyler. Clocking in at close to three hours, the film has received some criticism about its length, but the ample runtime allows the film to properly flesh out all three protagonists and the camaraderie that develops between them as they meet while sharing a flight back to the same hometown. Fredric March won an Oscar for his portrayal of a banker unable to instantly return to being the shrewd businessman that his colleagues expect of him. Dana Andrews was not Oscar nominated but is equally as effective as a pilot haunted by nightmares of war and vexed by a selfish wife who believes that he could just "snap out of it" if he really wanted to. The best performance comes from Harold Russell though, a nonprofessional actor who really did lose his hands during the war. There is a truly heartfelt moment when he smashes a glass window and the film handles his uncertainty over whether his fiancée really still loves him very well. At times, the movie edges into melodramatic territory with Hugo Friedhofer's overbearing score no help, but it flows pretty smoothly in general. There also is a lot to like about how Wyler sets the film entirely in the aftermath of the war and yet manages to convey just how much each man is changed by his experiences.

mattywoh In a movie full of superlative acting performances, including Oscars for two of the three returning vets, it was the third vet, Fred Derry, played by Dana Andrews, who "steals" the movie--thus making Andrews's performance the best to not win the Oscar in it's history. This movie contains many notable scenes, the four that touched me most were: when Fredric March starts drinking heavily before his being honored before the bank trustees--I felt myself tensing up, hoping he wouldn't "blow it" at the podium, and that's tribute to masterful direction and acting.The second scene was when Fred Derry is told by March to stop seeing his daughter, and when Fred goes to the phone to break it off, you can see him in the back of the bar, talking on the phone, and when he hangs up the receiver, he holds it for a long moment, and that was powerful to see, even though he was in the back of the bar, and a scene was playing out in the foreground, your eyes are always on Fred on the phone.Third is the terror of the plane field full of decapitated war planes, which the director used to mimic the broken psyches of the returning vets who had been tossed aside. Finally, the final scene of the wedding, where Fred reunites with Teresa Wright's character, and you see him from behind, as the best man, and he turns to look at her and she is tearing up--Wyler uses a large hat to help "funnel" her face towards Fred's--he turns back to the wedding, and when they go into their wedding vows, he turns again towards her, and they never look away, and when the pastor says "you may kiss the bride", and Homer and Wilma share a modest kiss, Fred staggers towards Teresa Wright and plants a kiss of pure unadulterated passion on her, and it's the best scene ever filmed, in my opinion. I'm tearing up now.

generationofswine I was never censored as a child...but I was encouraged and Dad ALWAYS encouraged my little sister and I to watch AMC back when AMC was showing classic movies all the time.MOST of the time. There were more than a few films that he would use the adult veto on because he hated them as a kid...This was one of them.I can't understand why. I remember watching this when I was around 7 and loving it. So involved in the banker's daughter and the old bomber and would they get together? Would he find a job? Would the guy with no hands make it out OK in the end? As a kid I was hanging on the edge of my seat watching the trio move through the transition from war to civilian life like your childhood babysitter watches a Soap Opera.I was fixated then...now as an adult I unfortunately know how it ends, but am still mesmerized by the beauty of it all and how moving the story is.There are few movies as beautiful and fulfilling as this.