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Feb 21, 2016voisjoe1_0 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Three servicemen have a rough time adjusting to civilian when WWII is ended. One of them, Homer, played by Harold Russell, comes home without any hands. I was surprised to find that Russell was an actual serviceman who had lost his hands in the war. The makers of the film were criticized for using an actual wounded warrior as being some kind of exploitation (or was he just a reminder of how we fail to toss away the wounded warriors when they are no longer useful in war?). The film won 7 Oscars and Roger Ebert lists this as a Great Movie. The film is somewhat marred by the fact that every 50 minutes an African-American pops up among the White crowds for several seconds to remind White America that Blacks are just throwaway subhumans.