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* WartimeWedding: Fred had met and married Marie prior to shipping out.
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* WartimeWedding: Fred had met and married Marie during his flight training prior to shipping out.
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* WartimeWedding: Fred had met and married Marie prior to shipping out.
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''The Best Years of Our Lives'' is a 1946 post-war drama directed by Creator/WilliamWyler and starring Creator/FredricMarch, Creator/DanaAndrews, Creator/MyrnaLoy, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, and Harold Russell. It won seven UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, including Best Picture of the Year.
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''The Best Years of Our Lives'' is a 1946 post-war drama film directed by Creator/WilliamWyler and Creator/WilliamWyler, starring Creator/FredricMarch, Creator/DanaAndrews, Creator/MyrnaLoy, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, and Harold Russell. It Adapted from [=MacKinlay=] Kantor's blank-verse novella ''Glory for Me'', the film won seven UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, including Best Picture of the Year.
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Fred Derry was a bombardier, not a pilot.
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* CatapultNightmare: Fred does this when he has BadDreams of his fellow pilots dying in a bombing raid.
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* CatapultNightmare: Fred does this when he has BadDreams of his fellow pilots aviators dying in a bombing raid.raid. As a bombardier, he had all too good of a view through the transparent nose of his B-17.
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* GentlemenRankers: Al, a wealthy banker, was a sergeant. Inverted with Fred, who evidently comes from poverty (his father and stepmother live in a dilapidated shack), but was a captain flying B-17 bombers.
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* GentlemenRankers: Al, a wealthy banker, was a sergeant. Inverted with Fred, who evidently comes from poverty (his father and stepmother live in a dilapidated shack), but was a captain flying behind a Norden bombsight in B-17 bombers.
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* NoRomanticResolution: The romance between Fred and Peggy [[UnresolvedSexualTension brews and brews]], only coming to a resolution with 45 SECONDS LEFT and the credits rolling.
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* NoRomanticResolution: The romance between Fred and Peggy [[UnresolvedSexualTension brews and brews]], only coming to a resolution with 45 SECONDS LEFT and the credits rolling.about to roll.
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** Fred, a retired bomber pilot, finds himself having BadDreams wherein he relives dramatic war scenes.
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** Fred, a retired bomber pilot, former B-17 bombardier, finds himself having BadDreams wherein he relives dramatic war scenes.
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''The Best Years of Our Lives'' is a 1946 post-war drama directed by Creator/WilliamWyler and starring Creator/FredricMarch, Creator/DanaAndrews, Creator/MyrnaLoy, Creator/TeresaWright, Creator/VirginiaMayo, and Harold Russell. It won seven UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, including Best Picture of the Year.
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''The Best Years of Our Lives'' is a 1946 post-war drama directed by Creator/WilliamWyler and starring Creator/FredricMarch, Creator/DanaAndrews, Creator/MyrnaLoy, Creator/TeresaWright, Creator/VirginiaMayo, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, and Harold Russell. It won seven UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, including Best Picture of the Year.
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''The Best Years of Our Lives'' is a 1946 post-war drama directed by Creator/WilliamWyler and starring Creator/FredricMarch, Creator/DanaAndrews, Creator/MyrnaLoy, Creator/TeresaWright, Creator/VirginiaMayo, and Harold Russell. It won seven {{Academy UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, including Best Picture of the Year.
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* DerelictGraveyard: The airplane graveyard, where decommissioned bombers are being converted to scrap, that Fred visits towards the end (and takes a job at).
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* DerelictGraveyard: The airplane graveyard, graveyard that Fred visits towards the end (and takes a job at), where decommissioned bombers are being converted to scrap, that Fred visits towards the end (and takes a job at).material for prefab housing.
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* DerelictGraveyard: The airplane graveyard Fred visits towards the end.
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* DerelictGraveyard: The airplane graveyard graveyard, where decommissioned bombers are being converted to scrap, that Fred visits towards the end.end (and takes a job at).
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* VerbalTic: Fred habitually addresses people as "chum".
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* WhamLine: Upon seeing Fred in uniform again, Marie casually tells him "You look like yourself." Fred's face falls as he realizes she's only ever thought of him as a soldier rather than the man he wants to be.
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* MaltShop: Fred returns and takes up his old job as a soda jerk in the local drugstore. However, he finds this unsatisfying after his time as a captain in the Air Force.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Homer feels immense guilt over his outburst at the kids making fun of him.
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''The Best Years of Our Lives'' is a 1946 post-war drama directed by Creator/WilliamWyler and starring Creator/FredricMarch, Creator/DanaAndrews, Creator/MyrnaLoy, Creator/TeresaWright, Creator/VirginiaMayo, and Harold Russell. It won seven {{Academy Award}}s, including Best Picture of the Year.
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''The Best Years of Our Lives'' is a 1946 post-war drama directed by Creator/WilliamWyler and starring Creator/FredricMarch, Dana Andrews, Creator/DanaAndrews, Creator/MyrnaLoy, Creator/TeresaWright, and Harold Russell. It won seven {{Academy Award}}s, including Best Picture of the Year.
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* AnArmAndALeg: Homer lost both hands in a fire when his aircraft carrier went down.
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* CatapultNightmare: Fred does this when he has BadDreams of [[ShellShockedVeteran his fellow pilots dying in a bombing raid]].
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Homer and Wilma, having lived [[GirlNextDoor next to another]] since childhood.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Homer and Wilma, having lived [[GirlNextDoor next to another]] since childhood.
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* CatapultNightmare: Fred does this when he has BadDreams of [[ShellShockedVeteran his fellow pilots dying in a bombing raid]].
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* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Homer and Wilma, having lived[[GirlNextDoor next to another]] another since childhood.
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* HookHand: Homer Parrish -- played by real-life double amputee Harold Russell.
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* DerelictGraveyard: The airplane graveyard Fred visits towards the end.
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''The Best Years of Our Lives'' is a 1946 post-war drama directed by Creator/WilliamWyler and starring Creator/FredricMarch, Dana Andrews, Creator/MyrnaLoy, Creator/TeresaWright, and Harold Russell. It won seven {{Academy Award}}s, including Best Picture of the Year.
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''The Best Years of Our Lives'' is a 1946 post-war drama directed by Creator/WilliamWyler and starring Frederic March, Creator/FredricMarch, Dana Andrews, and Harold Russell. It won seven {{Academy Award}}s, including Best Picture of the Year.
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* InadvertentEntranceCue: At the pub, when Fred and Homer discuss Al's whereabout, the latter enters through the door.
--> '''Fred''': Oh, Al. He's home in the swankiest apartment house in town. We'll never see him again. [[Cue Al waling in]]
--> '''Fred''': Oh, Al. He's home in the swankiest apartment house in town. We'll never see him again. [[Cue Al waling in]]
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* InadvertentEntranceCue: At the pub, when Fred and Homer discuss Al's whereabout, whereabouts, the latter enters through the door.
--> '''Fred''': Oh, Al. He's home in the swankiest apartment house in town. We'll never see him again.[[Cue ''(Cue Al waling in]]walking in)''
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* ReturningWarVet: The three protagonists in the beginning.
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* BittersweetEnding: Although it ends [[spoiler:with Homer marrying his sweetheart and Fred finding another job in town, implying he might be able to find a life with Peggy later on]], all three men acknowledge they will still be struggling over the emotional scars of the war.
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* CatapultNightmare: Fred does this when he has BadDreams of [[ShellShockedVeteran his fellow pilots dying in a bombing raid]].
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* UnfamiliarCeiling: Millie and Peggy bring Fred home with Al after their night on the town, because Fred is as drunk as Al, and Peggy puts Fred in her room. When Fred wakes up the next morning, he not only doesn't know where he is, he also doesn't recognize Peggy at first.
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: On guy in a diner tells him that the military basically duped him and cost him his hands. While one could hardly blame him for being upset, since the Nazis and Japanese might have done more damage, had he not been in the war, there is no debating that he still would have had his limbs intact (to say nothing of the fact that the conflict with the Japanese was pretty much resolved with nukes, so U.S. troops might not have been needed).
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: On guy in a diner tells him that the military basically duped him and cost him his hands. While one could hardly blame him for being upset, since the Nazis and Japanese might have done more damage, had he not been in the war, there is no debating that he still would have had his limbs intact (to say nothing of the fact that the conflict with the Japanese was pretty much resolved with nukes, so U.S. troops might not have been needed).
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* SleepingSingle: Averted, in a case of GettingCrapPastTheRadar. They couldn't show Frederic March and Myrna Loy in bed together, so when Al wakes up after his night of drunken carousing, he sees a second pillow next to his, with an impression of Myrna Loy's head.
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* GentlemanRankers: Al, a wealthy banker, was a sergeant. Inverted with Fred, who evidently comes from poverty (his father and stepmother live in a dilapidated shack), but was a captain flying B-17 bombers.
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'''''The Best Years of Our Lives''''' is a 1946 post-war drama directed by Creator/WilliamWyler and starring Frederic March, Dana Andrews, and Harold Russell. It won seven AcademyAwards, {{Academy Award}}s, including Best Picture of the Year.
