The Pride of the Yankees

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Summary: A Grand Slam Hit
Review: Fresh from his Oscar-winning performance in "Sergeant York", Gary Cooper was the logical choice to portray the New York Yankees first baseman who was tragically taken so early in life by Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis. Lou Gehrig was one of the key players in the success of the Yankees during each season of the thirties decade. Gehrig was nicknamed the "Iron Horse" because of his home run hitting ability and his durability playing first base (he held the long-standing record of playing in 2130 consecutive games). This film tells the complete life story of Gehrig in both an informative and entertaining way. Cooper's performance is nearly flawless. Walter Brennan, who co-starred with Cooper in "Sergeant York", also renders an great performance in this picture. This film is most enjoyable in its original black and white format; computerized colorization doesn't quite look natural.

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Summary: Heartfelt Story
Review: Colorized version of 1942 movie. Gary Cooper, Babe Ruth, and Teresa Wright present story of Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees who became cripled with "Lou Gehrig's disease." The finest scene for us was his historical speech. Gehrig's final goodbye was a lesson in true character. Beautifully down by Gary Cooper. **Note: Since Gary Cooper was a natural right-hander and Lou Gehrig a lefty, the baseball hitting scenes were filmed with Cooper swinging as a righty then the film was reversed to make him appear to be a natural left. Kewl eh?

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Summary: Bride of The Stankees
Review: Moe Howard stars as Joe Pepitone. Between the eye poking and Nyuk Nyuk Nyuks it is Howard's finest performance since he starred in " Hello From Germantown" with Rose Marie as his putana wife. Enjoy! Add a star if you lance your own boils.

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Summary: Colorized & in a Snap Case - Don't Buy It
Review: I've rented this movie on tape, in black & white, and I loved it. I will NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER watch the colorized version. Furthermore, why put such a classic movie in such a shoddy package? Instead, when a studio gets an urge to colorize a movie, show it in anything other than it's original aspect ratio, or release it in a snap case, they should just turn it over to Criterion so we can be assured it will be properly treated.

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Summary: BUYER BEWARE
Review: Buyer Beware! This is a COLORIZED movie, and a poor one at that. Gone is any sense of character, drama, tonal texture, or depth of picture that we remember from the original. The manufacturer didn't even give us the opportunity to select either Black & White or colorized versions, an obvious possibility in DVD.

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Summary: Sweet and Sentimental
Review: The best movie anyone ever made about baseball. Gary Cooper turns in a spectacular performance as Lou Gehrig, the Yankee baseball star who becomes an American legend, only to be cut down by disease. The ending, in which the doomed Gehrig tells his many fans at Yankee Statium how much baseball has meant to him, are some of the most emotional minites in movie history. Theresa Wright is wonderful as Gehrig's loving wife, Elsa Jansson and Ludwig Stossel are are right on track as Gehrig's old world parents, and Babe Ruth plays himself. It's a sentimental movie, but I like sentimental.

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Summary: A great movie with an ugly colorization
Review: "Pride of the Yankees" is possibly the greatest movie ever made on the topic of baseball. I'm a sap when it comes to Gary Cooper and after seeing this film I became more and more interested in Baseball. I'm a basketcase at the end of the movie when Coop makes his farewell speech as I'm sure are millions of other guys. Of course a lot of the film's greatness is lost due to the annoying coloroization but see it anyway if you havn't yet. Colorized or not, it's still a great film.

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Summary: This movie is timeless.
Review: Gary Cooper may have been a bit old and unathletic to play Gehrig, but the movie will always remain a classic. It is as much a love story as a baseball story with Irving Berlin's "Always" as background music. It is ironic that Cooper as Gehrig finished second as Gehrig did to Ruth when this movie rated behind another "Yankee" (Doodle Dandy), George M. Cohan played by James Cagney as the top movie for 1942.

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Summary: Very good movie
Review: Loved the movie I first seen it when I was 12 years old and cried at the end.All of Gehrigs statts are right.Gary Cooper plays a tremendous part but could not bat left handed so they had to shoot all the back wards.Teresa Wright was good as Ellie but that is not how she really was not that sqeaky all american girl. Ellie smoked and drank not in that movie. I still watch it 2 to 3 times a year

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Summary: The best of the drama classics!
Review: This movie could not be more enjoyable to a fan of the classic b/w format of movies. Gary Cooper plays Lou Gehrig, the famous NY Yankees baseball player with a kind heart. The film focuses on Lou's early life, including his college years. It also shows how his nice, but stubborn mother always could not accept being a baseball player as a way to make a living. Another aspect of the film is Gehrig's love for his wife, and how a diesese tragically tore his life apart. Great scene at the end of the movie re-creating Lou's famous speech, (Today, I consider myself...the luckiest man... on the face of the Earth.) Look for Babe Ruth himself playing himself.