The Best Years of Our Lives: The Aircraft Graveyard Scene, and the Entire Picture, for Free!

Re-posted by N.S.

Unfortunately, You have to sit through commercials, in order to see the entire picture, but it’s worth it to see the greatest movie ever made.





@steveparadis2978
1 year ago

Wyler: “’It’s going to need some music.’

Friedhofer: ‘Okay.’”


@claudiagibsonmusic
1 year ago

“I will never ever understand why Dana Andrews did not get a best actor award for this film. He was not even nominated! Criminal.”

@nstix2009xitsn

@Claudia Gibson Andrews was unlucky, sort of.

In getting one of the two main roles in the greatest picture ever made, he was plenty lucky. However, while in the source material, Andrews' role of Fred Derry (the poem opens, "Fred Derry, killer of 100 men") was the protagonist, Sam Goldwyn decided to have Freddie March play Al Stephenson, which meant Al would be the protagonist, and Goldwyn would campaign for March to get nominated for Best Actor.

Then Andrews should have been nominated and won for Best Supporting Actor. More bad luck. The Academy wanted to do something for returning veterans, so it decided to bestow a special Oscar on Harold Russell, who had brilliantly played Homer Parish. But then the Academy went overboard, and also nominated Russell for a competitive Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, and who was going to stand in the way of a returning, disabled veteran?

"Glory for Me: The 268-Page Poem That Became the Movie The Best Years of Our Lives"

https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2016/05/glory-for-me-268-page-poem-that-became.html


@davidreidenberg9941
1 year ago

“It always seemed to me that Andrews’ character required the most suspension of disbelief. How does a guy with no higher education become a captain as a bombardier? Or how does a character with the screen presence of Andrews start out as a soda jerk and return as a soda jerk?”

​ N.S. @davidreidenberg9941 1. The War. 2. The end of The War.

Imagine many years later that, as a young man, Fred’s age, you left the country, and went on amazing adventures, and accomplished great things. And then, by the time you returned, your country had changed, and been taken over by people who counted nothing you’d done an accomplishment.

Dana Andrews’ character requires no suspension of disbelief at all.


@vegetony
6 years ago

“Even the name of the airplane: ‘Round Trip,’ with the question mark underneath it, adds meaning to the scene. This is a story of each man’s round trip, to war and back and facing all the uncertainties surrounding war: whether they would return at all, whether they would return as a whole person, and what type of life are they returning home to?”

@guyjohnson2856
5 years ago

“Dana Andrews lifted himself in and out of that forward position like he’d been doing it all his life...nice touch...”


@v0n1b0
2 years ago

guy johnson  “I wouldn’t be surprised if William Wyler himself showed him how to do it.”

@kevingilligan139
5 years ago

“There is much symbolism in this scene. As you note, the graffiti on the plane, the others with their propellers removed, the dusty, neglected interior, and most of all the patterns present from the weathering of the cockpit dome, looking like bomb explosions. There are several scenes in this film that get to me: this one of course, the PTSD-induced nightmare scene that Peggy wakes Fred from, the reading of the Air Medal citation by Fred's alcoholic father, Fred telling Homer to get married after he had just gotten fired, and the final scene where he embraces Peggy and, essentially, proposes. Very, very sensitive and emotional scripting and film-making.”


@brucerobinson7295
5 years ago (edited)

vegetony “The airplane Round Trip was a actually a 8th Air Force plane that flew in combat during late 43 early 44 there a few bombers that competed 50 to almost 200 hunded missions with various crews there was a plane named Hells Angels it flew 25 missions before the Mephis Belle did by a week I think could be wrong if you get a chance look up the history of a B-26 called FLAK BAIT it flew 202. combat missions the nose section is in the Smithstonaion good day Bruce”