This has been my favorite movie for the longest time. It showed that veterans come back from wars with baggage. It wasn’t the first movie to do this. King Vidor’s The Big Parade showed the effect of WWI on three soldiers from before the war and followed the one survivor to after the war. Various gangster movies from the ’30s showed the effect WWI had on people. But most of these were all about people from New York. But this, I think, is the first and the best at showing the average American and the readjustment blues. Great cast. And it must have been very daring to have cast Harold Russell in the handicapped role at that time. And I just love Myrna Loy and Fredric March.