Directed by William Wyler
Screenplay by Robert E. Sherwood
Starring Frederic March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Harold Russell, Myrna Loy
The Oscars are a cyclical bunch. For a while they lavish awards on movies that aren’t terribly deep, i.e., spectacles- Lawrence of Arabia, Bridge on the River Kwai, Oliver – only to eventually snap out of it and give awards to more ‘serious’ and ‘earnest’ films, i.e., boring, like Kramer v. Kramer and Ghandi only to fall back into it Forrest Gump and Titanic. Continue reading
