"Best Years," in Revival, is Same Oscar Winner As in '46
by Stanley Meisler
Commentary by Stanley Meisler
March 29, 1954
March 1954
Middletown, Ohio
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People peek into books that may have been printed five, ten or fifty years ago, and there is no reason, not even a commercial one, why old movies cannot be exposed to the same sort of stares. "The Best Years of Our Lives," 1946 Oscar winner, will demonstrate this ably until Friday in the Colonial Theater. One knows whether something was worth seeing, reading or hearing in the first place by seeing, reading or hearing it in a second place. This film, directed by William Wyler, has been pulled out
of the barrel without a cobweb. "The Best Years of Our Lives" has excitement, polish and balance. The story, fashioned by Robert E. Sherwood from a MacKinlay Kantor novel, concerns the readjustment of three former servicemen to civilian life after World War II...
People peek into books that may have been printed five, ten or fifty years ago, and there is no reason, not even a commercial one, why old movies cannot be exposed to the same sort of stares. "The Best Years of Our Lives," 1946 Oscar winner, will demonstrate this ably until Friday in the Colonial Theater. One knows whether something was worth seeing, reading or hearing in the first place by seeing, reading or hearing it in a second place. This film, directed by William Wyler, has been pulled out
of the barrel without a cobweb. "The Best Years of Our Lives" has excitement, polish and balance. The story, fashioned by Robert E. Sherwood from a MacKinlay Kantor novel, concerns the readjustment of three former servicemen to civilian life after World War II...
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