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Summary: SERGEANT YORK
Review: THIS MOVIE HAD ONE OF THE BEST STORYLINES I'VE EVER SEEN. IT TEACHES US HUMILITY AND MORALS LIKE NOTHING ELSE. THIS MOVIE SHOULD BE ON DVD.
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Summary: We need more films like this!
Review: I first saw Sergeant York several years ago, and since then it has been among my favorite films. This movie portrays the life of York in a true and Godly way. If only there were more films like these showing a brave and Godly man fight for his country; we would not have the "cowards" that now live in our nation. Today there are hardly any "real" men who will stand up for what is true and right. Every young man should watch this film as a way to see how a "real" man lives, works, and fights. May more films like it be created in the near future, or we will suffer by raising a generation of cowards!
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Summary: DVD RELEASE DATE
Review: I have seen this movie a few times before, It is a great classic, Set in Tenn. it is about a rough around the edges country boy that can get pretty riled up. He then finds god and is against all violence. He is drafted for the war and doesn't want to go cause now he doesn't believe in it. He is finally told he has no choice and while on the target range for qualifying he ask for a ( recheck )of the shots he fired, and earns the respect of the rest of his soon to be solders in arms. The movie just keeps getting better and better. I can't wait till February 2004 till it is released on DVD format. It will defiantly be a welcome addition to my collection
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Summary: This Keeps Going Out of Stock on Amazon
Review: This keeps going out of stock on amazon. Most likely because Alvin York was truly heroic in the American sense and is a common man, who had an uncommon life and struggled with his conscience and life. A noble story.
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Summary: Dickie Moore- This is Great!
Review: I watched this movie because Dickie Moore said it was his favorite and it was fun seeing him in an older role as opposed to his child star movies. I thought I wouldn't like the movie because it is a war movie, but most of it is set in Tennessee, away from the war. Gary Cooper is great in his role. I love how the people call cows "beef critters". This movie is a lot of fun to watch.
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Summary: SERGEANT YORK
Review: The reason for the rateing is that I thought that this movie came in color and when it arrived to my home it was in black and white. Cna someone there tell me does this come in color as while if so please give me a price. Other then that I really enjoyed the movie.
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Summary: Story of a true hero
Review: York was a complex fellow with many issues that conflicted in his psyche. Should he go and fight a war when the bible told him otherwise. Gary Cooper does a tremendous job as York and fully deserved the academy award. Highly Recommened.
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Summary: Sergeant York: The Great War as Prelude
Review: By 1941, Europe had been in armed conflict ever since German tanks rolled into Poland in 1939. In hindsight, England, a beaten France, and a Soviet Russia then learning the true meaning of Blitzkrieg all could see that the Germany of 1935 through 1939 had been busy preparing for a war of conquest. In America, Hollywood too had long since cast off its blinders and its top producers knew that another, far more terrible Great War was just around the corner. SERGEANT YORK was one of a handful of movies that Hollywood managed to crank out before the eye-opening event of December 7, 1941.
To prepare America for this newest war, Hollywood tapped director Howard Hawks to reach back some quarter century to resurrect a genuine war hero who could stand tall for a new generation. This hero was Alvin York, a man who won numerous medals from both his own country and France for his single-handed capture of more than one hundred German soldiers and his killing in combat of dozens more. What made York even more heroic than his deeds suggest is that at the time that he was drafted in 1917, he was a Bible-reading pacifist who was sure that he could not kill another man in anger. Hawks chose Gary Cooper to play York. Cooper was the natural choice; he looked like York, could speak like York, and most important, Cooper was then an established film icon whose unwavering moral compass made clear in all his previous films marked him as York's soul brother.
The movie details York's home life in Tennessee. He is pictured as a young man whose principles were beyond question. True, he was also seen as a hick type, but that was not necessarily a bad thing. America then was far more rural then urban and very many Americans could instantly relate to his homespun and simplistic philosophy. Cooper plays York as a man who has to struggle with some divergent choices that all young men in all wars must face. Can he kill when ordered? At first, he says no, and he is labeled a Conscientious Objector. One of the film's most stirring scenes is not one of shooting combat at all, but of emotional combat. His officers can see in York the making of a fine soldier, and one of them engages him in a quiet conversation whose moral significance belies its decorum. This officer rightly respects York's beliefs, but tells him that the gods of war cannot be ignored or trifled with. York replies that he will 'chew things over.' And so he does as the middle part of the movie places him in France. York and his comrades are surrounded by Germans and their lives are in mortal peril. If York holds on to his beliefs, he and his comrades will die. He makes a decision that the film suggests is not a sudden one, but one that has had an evolutionary genesis. He decides to shoot back and to kill. And kill he does. He picks off one German after another with his deadly rifle fire. He captures an entire regiment and delivers his prisoners to his superiors. For this he gets a medal, a ticker tape parade in New York, and the opportunity for commercial product endorsements. The movie ends happily with York marrying his hometown sweetheart.
Cooper's portrayal of York not only solidified his stature as the leading actor of the day, but his convincing earnestness of his choice helped Hollywood prepare America for the day that it knew that a new generation of Alvin Yorks might just have to make that same choice.
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Summary: A real American hero
Review: When I sat down to watch this movie, I was ready for a lot of war action. The actual fighting, which took place in WWI, does not appear until very late in the movie, and only battle shown is the one he won the Medal of Honor for. This is still a fine movie. The bulk of the movie is on the growth of the man from Tennessee. We start with his drunk and rowdy days followed by his decision to buy some land so he can propose to a local lady. In riding to a fight, he receives a sign that leads him to the church. This is the focus of the movie. Looking at the box and seeing the movie, I found that York was not fond of war. His religious beliefs influenced him to resist going to war. After a time reflecting, he realizes he must fight to protect the freedom and way of life he loves; he fought because he had to. I learned that York did not want to do endorsements or make a movie because he was afraid it would glorify war. He agreed to have this picture done about him when America was preparing for WWII. I would highly recommend this movie. This is definitely a must-see.
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Summary: a three star film about a five star man.
Review: This was a very good film about the stuggle of conviction with duty. As such, it stand out rather well. Unfortunatly it only deals with the ( undeniable ) courage of York and only poorly with his character. York was a dim bulb ( a fundamentalist, even), uneducated, and childlike, but he had a great deal of courage and conviction that this film only touches upon. The depths of Yorks convictions are only touched upon in the film ( as really lame arguments lead him to put them aside, historically accurate or not, I do not know). But it fails to recognize ( not by ignoreing but by ending) the deomonstrations of his convictions after the war. York turned down the fortune his celebrity could have brought and instead used his fame to furthur education ( a value he learned during the war ), beliefs in pacifism, to passionetly espouse a sometimes shifting political ideology. The bravery that York demonstrated during the war are admirable but is understandable in a man who did what he belived in with no thought to himself. While his unfortunate educational and intellectual limitations may have made these things subject to rapid change and new positions with equal devotion, the strength of will and the devotion to do what one belives is right is admirable. Yes, he flip-floped alot becuase he could be easily persuaded, but the intellectual flip-flop, too, bucause they understand one side today, another tommarow. Few, however, show the decication to their ideals, even when they contradict the past (persumed) errors, than York. The film shows his bravery, but does not even begin to demonstrate, within his limits, his integrity.
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