"The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946) is producer Samuel Goldwyn's classic, a significant American film about the difficult, traumatic adjustments such as unemployment, adultery, alcoholism, and ostracism, that three returning veteran servicemen experienced in the aftermath of World War II. In more modern times, "Coming Home" (1978) portrayed the same plight of the returning serviceman.   The germinal idea for the literate, meticulously-constructed...