Till the End of Time (film)

Till the End of Time is a 1946 drama film directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Dorothy McGuire, Guy Madison, Robert Mitchum, and Bill Williams. Released the same year as but preceding the better known The Best Years of Our Lives, it covers much the same topic the adjustment of World War II veterans to civilian life. It was based on the novel They Dream of Home by Niven Busch. Unlike the soldier, sailor and airman of The Best Years of Our Lives, the male leads in this film are all U.S. Marines.

Right after VJ Day, two Marine Corps buddies, Cpl. Bill Tabeshaw Mitchum and Pfc. Cliff Harper Madison, are among a group selected to return immediately to civilian life. Bill, a former cowboy, has a silver plate implanted in his head, a souvenir of Iwo Jima, but has won 2,100 gambling and plans to buy a small cattle ranch in New Mexico. Former college student Cliff is physically uninjured but harbors deep resentments about losing nearly four years of his life because he enlisted right after Pearl Harbor.Arriving home in Los Angeles, Cliff finds that his parents are not home but meets his new neighbor, Helen Ingersoll Jean Porter, a vivacious 18yearold who is instantly infatuated with the decorated hero. Anxious to see old friends, he heads for Scuffys, a bar that was his favorite soda shop before the war. He is greeted by his friend and naval aviator Pinky, who introduces him to Pat Ruscomb Maguire. ........

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