There's also his friend Bill (Robert Mitchum), a cowboy who has a silver plate implanted after being wounded in Iwo Jima, and Perry (Bill Williams), a former boxer who has become a double amputee, struggling greatly to use his prosthetic legs. The film's focus is largely on Cliff (Guy Madison), a former college student who enlists after Pearl Harbor.
Many films at this time were certainly made with the end of the war in mind - practically every film on this list was made either in a distinctly post-war setting, or as some sort of response to post-war life.Īs films released in 1946 turn 75 years old this year, we wanted to take a moment to celebrate some of the most exciting films from 1946. Some were enormous successes at the time, some have been referenced over and over and over again, and many continue to inspire filmmakers 75 years later. They did this by having nine films share the festival's top prize. For one, the Cannes Film Festival was first held in '46, and in the wake of WWII, the festival decided to celebrate films from all over the world. The year 1946 marked some significant changes in cinema around the world. With the Golden Age of Hollywood in full swing, and countries all over the world releasing challenging and exciting films, audiences were hungry for some escapism to help them deal with the difficulties of their lives during wartime. It began, of course, with World War II, which dominated the cinematic landscape for most of the decade. The 1940s were a remarkable decade for movies.
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