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 To see part 1, click here . The Battle of Agincourt~Henry V - Sir William Walton I’m probably going to start sounding like a broken record at times during this blog so please forgive me if I keep harping on this point. In our last blog, we discussed how The Best Years of Our Lives was a big deal at the time but has ultimately aged fairly poorly. Now, we’re going to look at some of the other biggest movies of 1946, many of which were also big deals back then and have aged tremendously well. Noirs continued in heavy spades, with several classics coming out in 1946 such as The Postman Always Rings Twice G ilda The Big Sleep The Blue Dahlia The Killers The Spiral Staircase and The Stranger . All are stylized, cool and have a minimum level of quality that makes them worth watching but we’ve got bigger fish to fry today. A truly great film that’s somewhat noir-adjacent that we must mention in more detail is Alfred Hitchcock’s espionage romance/thriller Notorious . Similar to Shadow

   The Best Years of Our Lives Suite~The Best Years of Our Lives - Hugo Friedhofer One of the most fun aspects of taking this journey of watching every Academy Award winner, as well as whatever other major, great films came out around the same time, is discovering films that used to be highly-regarded and deemed essential classics but have since been lost to the sands of time. A lot has changed since 1946 and very few movies still endure in the popular lexicon. Some do, some that have been covered in this series, but others remain obscure to the average person, even if they were lauded in their day. It makes you wonder how many of the movies that come out today will escape the public memory in fifty years, Oscar winners or otherwise. This brings us to The Best Years of Our Lives , a movie that was widely-considered high up there for being one of the greatest movies ever made at the time. It was the highest-grossing movie to come out since Gone With the Wind (1939) (though it didn’