The Pride of the Yankees

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Summary: Can you go above 5 stars?
Review: I bought the black and white DVD version from Amazon and watched this movie with my daughter (my first time in about 10 years). What can you say other than this is one of top movies made. It helps to have such a compelling figure for the plot. I can count on one hand the number of hollywood movies that move me to tears and this is one of them. The emotion in the final sequence is tremendous. Gary Cooper is the perfect actor for this role. PS: my daughter now wears jersey #4 on her softball team...

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Summary: Amazing on DVD...and it IS available in black and white
Review: I can't say much more about this movie..it's all been said. But what I do want to comment on is that this movie IS available in black and white on DVD. The picture is awesome, and the sound clear. I own a copy, and the description above says its in black and white...you just need to look for it.

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Summary: One of the best baseball movies out there.
Review: "The Pride of the Yankees" can be easily called "The Lou Gehrig Story". I've always enjoyed baseball, and love watching movies about it, too. This has always been one of my top picks. Babe Ruth himself is a cast member in this picture. Where else can you see him personally in a film. This is probably the only one. You'll enjoy watching this Oscar-nominated classic about a true baseball legend struck down by a tragic illness. Lou Gehrig will always be one of the best baseball players of all time next to Babe Ruth.

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Summary: Beautiful in black and white
Review: The Pride of the Yankees is perhaps the best movie about sports because it is about so much more than sports: it's about love and bravery and dedication, on and off the field. And unlike so many other dying athlete movies, the sentiment is understated--you can cry unashamedly.

Now to the silly idea of colorizing movies. How's this for a reason not to do it: the filmmakers who created black and white movies never intended them to be seen in color. They were designed, lit, and photographed for black and white viewing. Surely we should have some regard for the purposes and judgments of the artists and craftsmen involved.

So many veteran filmmakers objected to this barbarism, this dumbing down of their work. John Huston in his final illness and drawing breath from an oxygen tank testified before Congress in hopes that legislation protecting black and white films would be passed. Orson Welles told a friend that he didn't want Ted Turner to deface Citizen Kane "with his crayons." (In what would have been the worst outrage of colorization, Turner's company looked into colorizing Kane, only to discover that Welles' contract with RKO forbade any alterations in the final film by anyone other than Welles himself.)

Incidentally, films can and have been restored without colorizing them, of course. But what is the point of restoring the film only to degrade it by coloring it? Furthermore, you do not get a true black and white representation of a colorized film by simply turning down the color control: the application of the color tones degrades the image's grey scale--in other words, the image appears too dark or too light.

Surely not everything must be candy-colored to be enjoyed. Black and white has a silvery spectral beauty all its own. Give in to it, without prejudice.

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Summary: Why Colorizing movies is good
Review: I totally disagree with Marielena's review on releasing this wonderful movie as a colorized version. Colorizing makes this wonderful movie available to the general public who prefer to see movies in color. Colorizing movies can bring a new and larger market to a movie that would probably sit on dusty shelves otherwise. Colorizing also allows for frame by frame restoration of a movie, and also preserves the film for future generations. I own a large collection of colorized movies, and am delighted to see movies that are being released in Colorized versions on DVD.

The whole argument over colorizing is totally ridiculous anyhow, since it only takes a small turn of the color knob on your TV set to remove the color for people who prefer to see a colorized movie in black and white.

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Summary: Pride of the Yankees
Review: Arguably the greatest sports movie of all time.
A great movie for all,I would have to think that you would
be very hard pressed to find a more enjoyable movie. You will
be a fan of Baseball and Lou Gerig. Be ready to laugh,cry,and feel good.

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Summary: The Best Baseball Movie Ever, Maybe best Sports Movie too!!
Review: Gary Cooper is amazing as Lou Gehrig, the quiet German kid from the Bronx, to Columbia, to Yankee Stadium, to immortality. He even looks a lot like Gehrig. Teresa Wright is terrific too, as is the whole cast with the possible exception being Dan Duryea again playing the pain in the neck wise guy, though even he changes in the end. Just about the perfect movie for all ages, including Babe Ruth playing a big role as himself. No they don't make sports stars like this anymore, nor movies either. The tango dancers with the Ray Noble orchestra are great too. A tear jerker, and just about perfect!!! Why isn't the VHS available?

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Summary: Wonderful Movie Can Still Be Saved
Review: Colorized !!! Truly wonderful how stupidity is allowed to function and flourish over and over again.

There is one unique way to save this masterpiece on DVD. By working the correct sequence of color cables on the output panel of your DVD player, you can indeed induce B&W with no damage to your picture tube. Not just B&W, but a sharp picture representation beyond anything you have ever seen before! Happened upon it by accident and it saved this timeless classic from the scrap yard of Turner Classic Blunders. Turned a disgusted viewer into a relieved one. Try it folks...May be worth the effort.

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Summary: one of the genres best
Review: one of the best early baseball movies, pride of the yankees tells the tragic story of a baseball legend cut down in his prime. gary cooper does a very believable and low key job of portraying gehrig. an essential for every baseball movie fan.

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Summary: Ted Turner Strikes Again
Review: Being from Atlanta, Georgia, it's normally hard to decide which I like less--George Steinbrenner's Yankees or Ted "the Mouth of the South" Turner. In this case Turner wins hands down. Lou Gehrig's story was a sports classic: the All-American son of immigrants, he became arguably the best player of the nation's pasttime while leading an exemplary life and courageously facing the fatal illness that now bears his name. Such a man's memory deserved the fitting tribute that once was "The Pride of the Yankees," a film I gladly would have given 5 stars to. Instead, Mr. Turner decided to avenge our Atlanta Braves' losses to the N.Y. Yankees in recent World Series in his typically crass manner--HE COLORIZED "THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES." If there is any possibility that this DVD will be reissued in black and white, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT for that glorious day. At the very least you may be able to get rid of the bland, pasty colors by adjusting your television set. In the meantime, I have a request for Mr. Steinbrenner. Should our Braves eventually defeat the Yankees in the World Series, please do not purchase the rights to "Gone With the Wind" in an attempt to bleach it into a black and white movie.