Feb 22 movie: The Best Years of Our Lives. This is a long movie and I've seen it recently, so I didn't intend to watch it again. But I couldn't help myself; it's that good.
I've only seen Dana Andrews in a couple of movies but I always really enjoy him. I'm going to have to look for more of his work. As I said last time, Harold Russell is amazing, but he did very little acting besides this. I read that this movie was the first ever to depict intimacy with a disabled person. It's a very touching scene where Russell takes off his artificial hands and shows his girlfriend (Teresa Wright) how helpless he is without them, thinking she'll dump him. But instead she helps him get into bed and kisses him goodnight. The first time I saw this movie, I didn't know Russell really had lost his hands, and I wondered if it was some kind of special effect (like Gary Sinese' legs in Forrest Gump). But when they showed his bare arms it was obviously real.
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