Till the End of Time

Mood picture, about how returning soldiers handle getting back to normal life after the hardship they'd experienced in battle. Not as polished as The Best Years of Our Lives which shares a similar theme. Perhaps a more youthful spirit to Till the End of Time (1946). First big role for Guy Madison, who looked a little fresh to really take the role to heart, but he had some good help from Robert Mitchum, who looked right at home in his. It's more the moments than the full story which carries this.

A poor man's "Best Years of Our Lives." Too much attention to the love story (including too many versions of the title song played on living room consoles, backyard radios, beach gramophones, etc.), but the scenes of GI's with PTSD are moving, particularly one at a skating rink where a "boy from Idaho" has the shakes bad and can't face going home. Check out the final bar fight--definitely pre-HUAC--where GI's take on a fascist group ("The War Patriots") who badmouth negroes and unions.