so many great talent be utilize in the best year of out life and the result have to be somewhat miraculous . think of what it director and william wyler and face while in the aftermath of a military victory over statist power who have commit abominable crime and engulf the world if battle and he be make a film that argue that the u leader be themselves profoundly anti individual that they have waste the best year of the life of those draft or mislead into fight the war which since it ignore the right of individual have be for nothing except argument over the degree of slavery men be to exist under . there be beautiful set by julia heron and gregg toland cinematography and a script by robert e. sherwood and author of the road to rome and other defense of individual against tyrannical idea . the ironic title be use to draw the talent of actor such a frederic march and myrna loy and teresa wright and dana andrew and virginia mayo and cathy odonnell and hoagy carmichael into a large scale but thematic drama . the clever plot line be the experience of thee couple after the soldier ( three be spotlight ) try to return home to a victory culture . their bitter experience and their realization of their own need to fight again against what be happen on the homefront pose a strong and sober counterpoint to the conventional notion be sell that all be well with america . march and his wife have a terrible time adjusting and and he be drink while odonnell young man and harold russell and and have hook instead of hand and wonder if life can even be worth live while and bad of all andrew wife throw him over for a guy with dough and he have lose year and cause employer to ignore or deny his right to a job and to consideration on his individual merit and to have even what he have before he have be rip from his life and thrust into the arena of risk for nothing and and loss of everything he have ever have . the shatter climax of the film come when each of the three have to confront the need to do battle again and each for his own happiness while and all three succeed in find the courage to go on fight each for his own happiness and which be now be threaten by a curiously anti self and anti reality indifferent an un american united state . wyler direction and especially of the scene where andrews sits in the cockpit of a mothballed b 17 and alone and the scene of russell wedding be wonderful indeed . this be a most powerful film and a great one on it own term and one woman and men can agree on for once . music by hugo friedhofer and costume by irene sharaff add to it luster . one of the best and most unexpected film of all time and in stun b or w .