" BackgroundThe Best Years of Our Lives(1946) is producer Samuel Goldwyn""s classic, significant American film about the difficult, traumatic adjustments (unemployment, adultery, alcoholism, and ostracism) hat three returning veteran servicemen experienced in the aftermath of World War II.In the film""s preposterous conclusion on his Chinese junk, as the ""general died at dawn,"" his devoted soldiers were ordered o execute the whites and Mr.Garland""s realistic performance reflected the upheavals in her own personal life that led to her death from a drug overdose - and ironically, this film""s co-star James Mason delivered her funeral""s eulogy in New York in 1969.I""ll make a queen of that barbarous wretch."The unwashed Cockney girl is led into a fancy new bedroom, while a maid runs water into a bathtub in the adjoining bathroom." Once deep inside he Ape territory, Malcolm came across animal skulls and bones arranged into ""scarecrows"" by the apes.