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Load of rubbish!!

best movie i've ever seen.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Spending any amount of time amongst the evils of war can have an impact on even the most idealistic of young men, and for handsome, seemingly grounded Guy Madison, that doesn't come clear until he returns home. Grateful that he's survived in one peace, his parents Tom Tully and Ruth Nelson no longer understand who he is. A neighborhood girl suffers from hero worship and is jealous of the female attention he does get, while troubled Dorothy McGuire dates pretty much every soldier she meets because of the death of the man she loved in battle. Through pal Robert Mitchum, Madison meets those not so lucky, and adjusting to a world changed after war takes all the strength he can muster.Unlike the Oscar winning "The Best Years of Our Lives", this goes deep into the psyche of just one person rather than three. Madison is excellent, subtle yet troubled, rebelling against a cause he doesn't understand and torn into pieces psychologically because of the pressures. I'd hoped for more detail concerning McGuire and Mitchum's characters, but considering that the focus is on one person, that makes it almost more profound than the better known "Coming Home" themed film that walked away with pretty much every major award. It takes a while for Madison and McGuire to really connect, but once they do, you can see why he'd be drawn to her. Mitchum's dealing with a metal plate in his head creates other issues for the increasingly troubled Madison.As the parents, Tully and Nelson are fine, their concern and frustration very realistic. It goes to show that war doesn't end when it's off the battlefield, that the issues inside remain even with a physically healthy body. Perhaps seeing the world, witnessing death and injury and the psychological death of their friends kills them a bit too. A scene with a shell-shocked soldier having a seizure must have struck a lot of nerves in 1946. Porter's annoying neighbor is well meaning and a step above the pouting young ladies Shirley Temple played at the time, making her understandable in spite of potentially being a complete pest. Harry Von Zell has a few good scenes as the idealistic and patriotic bartender. While war has changed a great deal over the past 70 years, these issues have not, although something tells me that the impact has increased.

After the Vietnam War when returning vets started protesting and complaining, some WWII veterans were taken aback and called them whiners and cowards.One need only see this film to get it. Coming home from combat is not an easy thing, and yes, a number of good soldiers, after the Big War, had a very hard time adjusting to civilian life. This film is a very realistic portrayal of that unfortunate situation and pulls few punches. The tone is perfect and the performances are excellent. The "neat little bow" ending is abrupt and unconvincing and keeps this from being pure film-noir, but "til the end" it is one powerful presentation of the post-war predicament. A nod also must be given to the inclusion of a set-up to announce to ALL of America that it took a ALL kinds of Heroes to win the war. Catholics, Jews, Negroes and others...not just WASPS.That, after all, is a situation we still have to deal with and its victims are ever present.

To compare a mini-gem such as Till the End of Time with the hugely promoted, star-studded Best Years of Our Lives -- the film that, historically, often is regarded as the screen icon for the re-adjusting soldiers' genre -- is like comparing Ray Robinson or Roberto Duran with Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis or Rocky Marciano.The same way that Robinson and Duran were, pound-for-pound, on the same level with their larger, heavier, stronger counterparts, Till the End of Time -- "pound-for-pound" -- is right with its larger, more celebrated celluloid counterpart.While Best Years, with its flashiness of celebrated cast (i.e. Frederick March, Myrna Loy), is much more expansive, Time expertly utilizes a small-scale, more focused look at the returning-soldier theme.As the proverbial slice-of-life, Time not only is more easily palatable for viewers, it also is quite accurate in the depiction of its conceptions and characterizations.The primary characters created by Guy Madison, Robert Mitchum and Bill Williams---as the returning World War II veterans -- and Dorothy McGuire, as the mildly cynical war widow with whom Madison's Cliff Harper becomes infatuated, are outstanding portrayals. Yes, Madison's sensitive performance in his first key role was effective, regardless of the less-than-sterling reviews traditionally given by critics.Fetching, twenty-year old Jean Porter, as the adorably saucy bobby-soxer who likewise is infatuated with Harper, also is quite effective.Excellent character performances are given by: Tom Tully and Ruth Nelson, as Harper's parents; Selena Royale, as the mother of Williams' Perry Kincheloe; and Bill Gargan, as the veterans' representative.Director Edward Dmytryk expertly orchestrates the film, which captures the unique flavor of its time frame as if it were bottling a rare wine.Though "Best Years" deserves much of its traditional praise, do not overlook "Time" simply because its focus is smaller. "Pound-for-pound" it is at least as good. Possibly even better.

Here is one of the earliest of the impact-of-civilian-life-on-soldiers stories. The story is pretty conventional, with different returning vets faced with different challenges. But there are a two factors which for me make this an engaging, even endearing movie.It's 1946, and we're seeing stars at their freshest. Robert Mitchum is the "old hand," which gives you an idea of how young we're talking about. Then there's the perpetually baby-faced Bill Williams. Finally, we have Guy Madison. I agree that he has to be one of the handsomest guys ever to appear on screen, a fact that renders his hopeless acting irrelevant. The love interest is provided with a fresh-faced Dorothy McGuire. Seeing these "kids" is really fun, not playing off old timers but each other.It's RKO, which means fairly low budget. This is actually an advantage. These are mainly middle-to-lower-middle-class folks, in their modest homes with their modest dreams, and more ambitious pipe dreams. Again, it's 1946. We're seeing 1946 urban (L.A.) sets, L.A. bars and pinball machines, clothing and hairstyles. No Adrian. No fancy nightclubs, no Gable, Crawford or Stewart or Dietrich. Just some very handsome kids, playing how those who lived in that moment recall so well: flush with victory but still shell-shocked, confident but not having it quite sunk in that we had become the masters of the world.