Returning Home

• Director: Daniel Petrie
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• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Melodrama
• Themes: Home From the War
• Release Year: 1975
• Country: US
• Run Time: 78 minutes

Plot

Returning Home attempts to do in 72 minutes what the Oscar-winning 1946 film The Best Years of Our Lives did in 172. This TV movie is a potted remake of that classic film, tracing the lives of three returning World War II servicemen. Dabney Coleman plays the Fredric March role as a married banker with two grown children. Tom Selleck fills Dana Andrews' shoes as a decorated ex-pilot who is grounded in peacetime by a dead end job and an unhappy marriage. And James Miller is a sailor who has lost both arms in the war, a fact that his family and fiancee struggle to come to grips with. Just as in the case of Best Years of Our Lives' Harold Russell, James Miller is a genuine amputee who'd been wounded in Vietnam. Why did Returning Home try to pack so much plot and so many characters into so short a running time? Because it was the pilot for an unsold TV series...titled The Best Years of Our Lives. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Whitney Blake; Joan Goodfellow; Sherry Jackson; Richard O'Brien; Lenka Peterson; Tom Selleck; Laurie Walters; Dabney Coleman

Credit

Ed Graves - Art Director, Lynn H. Guthrie - First Assistant Director, Daniel Petrie - Director, Marjorie Fowler - Editor, Michael McCroskey - Editor, Lee Rich - Executive Producer, Ken Lauber - Composer (Music Score), Richard L. Rawlings - Cinematographer, Herbert Hirschman - Producer, John McGreevey - Teleplay By, Bill Svanoe - Teleplay By

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