Approved | 2h 50min | War, Drama, Romance The Golden Age of Hollywood can rightly claim a wide array of excellent action-oriented World War II films, such as 1945’s “They Were Expendable” and 1957’s “The Bridge on the River Kwai.” Indeed, war movies contributed greatly to making American cinema the most influential and copied style of film production the world over.  However magnificent those films are—indelibly etched into the annals of world-class filmmaking—few from Old Hollywood explore what it was like for World War II veterans to return home after all the action subsided. Perhaps the most outstanding film on this subject is 1946’s “The Best Years of Our Lives,” directed by William Wyler. Although Wyler did direct 1942’s excellent “Mrs. Miniver,” he was not particularly known for his World War II films. But certainly his wide body of work—outside of wartime action—gave him an edge at portraying the domestic …