(Originally published by the Daily News on Nov. 22, 1946. This story was written by Kate Cameron.)
When Samuel Goldwyn said recently that ‘The Best Year of Our Lives,” which had a gala premiere at the Astor Theatre last night, represented his outstanding achievement as a Hollywood producer, he spoke nothing but the truth. His new film is everything he claims for it and more.
As far as this review is concerned, it is the best picture to come out of Hollywood since the end of the war. It is a slice of postwar life in an American town, with a little of everything that goes to make up the major and minor adjustments of the men who returned from the various war fronts to civilian life.
Strong Human Interest.
The transitions of Sergt. Al Stephenson, Capt. Fred Derry and sailor Homer Parrish to their old life in Boone City, are filled with human interest. There is great joy, as well as grief and laughter, in the adventures of the three service men, as Al returns to his grown up family and his old job at the bank, as Fred sheds his uniform and the glamor attached to an officer of the Air Corps for the linen jacket of a drug-store clerk, and as Homer tries to get used to a pair steel hooks that have replaced his lost hands.
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