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【送料無料・営業日15時までのご注文で当日出荷】(新品DVD) 我等の生涯の最良の年 (名作洋画)[主演：マーナ・ローイ/フレドリック・マーチ/監督：ウィリアム・ワイラー] FRT-146 価格:500円 (2018/10/31 10:52時点) 感想(0件)

Plot
After World War II, returning veterans Fred Derry, Homer Parrish, and Al Stephenson meet while flying home to Boone City. Fred is returning from Europe as a decorated captain and bombardier from the Eighth Air Force. Homer was a petty officer in the Seventh Fleet when he lost both hands from burns suffered when his ship was sunk, and now uses mechanical hook prostheses. Al served with the 25th Infantry as a platoon sergeant in the Pacific. All three have trouble adjusting to civilian life.
Al is a banker with a comfortable home and a loving family: wife Milly, adult daughter Peggy, and high school student son Rob. He is promoted to Vice President in charge of small loans, as the president views his military experience as valuable in dealing with other returning servicemen. When Al approves an unsecured loan to a young Navy veteran, the president advises him against making a habit of it. Later, at a banquet in his honor, a slightly inebriated Al expounds that the bank (and America) must stand with the vets and give them every chance to rebuild their lives.
Fred, once an unskilled drugstore soda jerk, wants something better, but the tight postwar job market forces him to return to his old job. Fred had met Marie while in flight training and married her shortly afterward, before shipping out less than a month later. She became a nightclub waitress while Fred was overseas. Marie makes it clear she does not enjoy being married to a lowly soda jerk.
Homer was a college football quarterback and became engaged to his next door neighbor, Wilma, before joining the Navy. Homer and his parents now have trouble dealing with his disability. He does not want to burden Wilma with his handicap so he eventually pushes her away, although she still wants to marry him.
Peggy meets Fred when picking up her father home from a bar where the three men had reunited. They are attracted to each other. Peggy dislikes Marie, and informs her parents she intends to end Fred's marriage, but they tell her that their own marriage overcame similar problems. Concerned, Al demands that Fred stop seeing his daughter. Fred agrees, but the friendship between the two men is strained.
When an obnoxious customer, who claims that the war was fought against the wrong enemies, gets into a fight with Homer, Fred intervenes and knocks the man down – costing him his job. Fred encourages Homer to put his misgivings behind him and marry Wilma, offering to be his best man.
Wilma visits Homer and tells him that her parents want her to leave Boone City for an extended period to try to forget him. Homer bluntly demonstrates to her how hard life with him would be. When Wilma is undaunted, Homer reconsiders.
Fred discovers his wife with another veteran. After complaining to Fred that she has "given up the best years of my life," Marie tells him that she is getting a divorce. Fred decides to leave town, and gives his father his medals and citations, including his Distinguished Flying Cross, with a citation written by General Doolittle. At the airport, Fred books space on the first outbound aircraft, without regard for the destination. While waiting, he wanders into a vast aircraft boneyard. Inside the nose of a B-17, he relives the intense memories of combat. The boss of a work crew rouses him from his flashback. Fred persuades the man to hire him.
People have gathered for the wedding of Homer and Wilma. Fred, now divorced, is Homer's best man. While the vows are exchanged, Fred and Peggy glance across at one another. At the conclusion everyone gathers around the newlyweds. Still gazing over at Peggy, Fred walks across the room, takes her in his arms and kisses her. He asks if she understands how things will be for them, that it could take years before they can get a life established. All the while Peggy smiles fondly at Fred, and then kisses him again.

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Cast
Myrna Loy as Milly Stephenson マーナ・ロイ
Fredric March as Platoon Sergeant Al Stephenson フレドリック・マーチ
Dana Andrews as Captain Fred Derry ダナ・アンドリュース
Teresa Wright as Peggy Stephenson　テレサ・ライト
Virginia Mayo as Marie Derry ヴァージニア・メイヨ
Cathy O'Donnell as Wilma Cameron　キャシー・オドネル
Harold Russell as Petty Officer 2nd Class Homer Parrish　ハロルド・ラッセル

参照：

Academy Awards
Won
Best Picture
Best Director (William Wyler)
Best Actor (Fredric March)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Supporting Actor (Harold Russell)
Best Film Editing
Best Music (Drama or Comedy)

Nominated
Best Sound Recording


今回の作品は1946年公開の「我らの生涯の最良の年」です。
監督はウィリアム・ワイラー。1946年度のアカデミー作品賞受賞作品です。
マーナ・ロイ、フレドリック・マーチらが出演しました。

内容は第二次世界大戦から復員する復員兵が直面する問題を描いたドラマです。
アル、フレッド、ホーマーの3人の復員兵の生活を描いています。
原題はThe Best Years of Our Livesです。
Bestということは最も良いということですが、フレッド、ホーマーにとっては最悪の年でしょう。
復員後、思い通りにいかないのですから。
そういうのもウィリアム・ワイラー監督のメッセージでしょうか。

これは戦後すぐの作品ですが、どれだけアメリカの生活が裕福だったかわかりますね。
貧困で苦しんでいた日本とは全く異なる経済力です。

特筆するべきなのはハロルド・ラッセル。
ホーマーを演じました。実はラッセルは俳優ではなく、実際に第二次世界大戦に従事した軍人です。
手を失ったのは、記録映画の撮影中の爆発事故によるものだそうです。
ラッセルは演技経験がないのにも関わらず、本作品でアカデミー助演男優賞を受賞しました。
やはり本物が演じると違ったものがあります。