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Plot: The story of a gentle hillbilly farmer who became a hero of World War I.
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MCT:October 4, 2008I'm a little torn on this movie.
When I first started watching it, I was bored silly and a little upset that this movie was considered a classic. The big problem I have with this film is the first half of the movie. The first half of the movie without the context of the second half of the film is absolutely mindnumber. It really is You're a Good Man, Abner Yokum. Really, this was just a stereotype of down home Applalachia with some good ol' drinking and marryin' and ignorance and the whole lot that came with the movie. Considering that I was getting settled in for an older war movie, I thought I'd have that treat. I didn't get any of that from the first half of the film.
But then I finished the film (a considerable amount of time later due to an irreparable scratch on the rental copy) and I kind of liked it. If you haven't noticed (and it's not that I'm particularly waving the flag every two seconds) I love patriotic films. This one is crazy patriotic. (I am patriotic, but I don't own tee-shirts.) This movie has got that same Mr. Smith Goes to Washington vibe by the time you get to the end, but Mr. Smith does it so much better. What this movie offers, I suppose, is one man's story completely propagandized to help with enlisting for World War II. Heck, I don't blame them. Some absolutely fantastic stuff came out of this movement so I'm not saying it is a bad thing.
I just wish they didn't make York so dumb.
The movie really sold it to me (which is a first) on the special features. I knew that it was based on a real guy, but I just couldn't believe that this cartoon character of a man was a real person. I'm not saying that it was only Gary Cooper who came off a little silly, but the entire vibe of the movie was absolutely ridiculous and silly. Then I watched the special feature on the real Sergeant York. Yeah, I think the movie went a little far with their portrayal of him, but he honestly was that crazy religious and sheltered from the world. It's hard to believe that this kind of guy would be this absolutely famous war hero. I mean, he had spinning newspapers and everything. I guess he kind of deserved it, although I don't know why the Germans gave up so darned easily because they could have and should have easily overwhelmed the rest of the American and British troops.
Another thing that really rubbed me the wrong way, and I suppose I can write this off to the fact that it is a propaganda film, is the fact that we don't really get a lot of the natural emotions that come from war out of Sergeant York. He's just a character that is meant to be so confident in everything he does because he's almost too dumb to fear anything that we don't have that moment when he is terrified that the Germans might escape. C'mon...with those few soldiers and not even enough bullets for half of the German army, you don't think that U.S. officers would have been terrified to walk them that far. What's funny on top of that is the ease of surrender. The second group they captured didn't even question surrendering. They had a military advantage over York and company! Why surrender? I'm sure that the film Hollywoodized how easy the German defeat would have been, but there's encouraging ideals versus complete believablilty. *sigh*
I can't say that this movie is really great. It's worth watching the whole thing, but the movie is terribly flawed and just not interesting for a good long time. We get such a background on York's life, which I suppose is necessary for the payoff to be so grand, but it almost costs too much for the amount of greatness you get. -
MCT:July 28, 2008
Based on the life of Sgt. Alvin York, who single-handedly captured over 120 German troops during combat in World War 1, Gary Cooper shines in the title role.
"Sgt. York" is a pretty good movie, but there are better ones. It has romance, moral conflict and fair action scenes.
The acting is pretty well done, especially Cooper's performance. Many of the actors, especially the one who plays York's younger brother, seem to just recite their lines instead of making the words coming from their mouths their own.
The directing is also pretty well done, but it's not spectacular. The battle scenes could have been done much better.
The battle scenes are well done, although it is pretty obvious when the scene is shot in a studio, as the sky in the background is obviously fake.
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MCT:May 13, 2008Rousing true action adventure, but with technical inaccuracies. York/Cooper is shown using the "All American" Springfield rifle, when in fact his unit carried the British pattern Enfield rifle. He is also shown using a captured German 9mm Luger pistol, when in fact he used the U.S. 1911 .45 ACP "Government Model" (Hollywood "artistic license" of the day likely called for him to use the American rifle & the "sexy" looking Luger chosen over over the huge "Old Slabsides" .45 Auto) plus the standard melodramatics expected then for a hollywood product...Oscar winner...Walter Brennan is outstanding here. Need to see it again for a fair evaluation, this used to be shown regularly on TV when I was a kid, when it was still cool to be a patriotic war hero, prior to the negative anti-military communist inspired propaganda of the Vietnam era, a self-destructive mindset we still see to a large degree even today initiated by generational malcontent leftovers, where our current war heroes are ignored by the biased leftist media and similarly oriented pukes in Hollywood...
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MCT:May 10, 2008
Doesn't follow history to a T (when does Hollywood ever do that?) but does an admirable job of showing what the real Alvin C. York did during World War I. Gary Cooper is at his all-time best playing the hillybilly war hero. Still a classic after all these years and a testament to good, sound filmmaking.
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MCT:May 6, 2008Very excellent. An all time classic, Gary Cooper is great as the title character, it's got a little action, drama, and comedy...very well done.
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MCT:April 28, 2008
The greatness of Cooper under the direction of Hawks makes this film a must see. Sure its a flag waving film with alot of religious themes, but Gary Cooper makes it believable and the film is just entertaining.
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MCT:January 25, 2008
A wonderful film (Hawks nailed it again). For once Gary Cooper is perfect as a big-yet-slightly-slow-on-the edge peasant from a desperately poor part of the US who becomes a war hero. I particularly like the first part in the countryside which looks much more 1850s than 1917 giving it a somewhat timeless touch.
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MCT:January 9, 2008excellent story of Alvin York, true events of his life and WWI experiences, Walter Brennan, Gary Cooper make the movie.
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MCT:December 29, 2007
I think this is a very good movie about a man struggling with his new found faith and then having to put that faith to full use as he goes into battle and comes out a war hero.
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MCT:October 29, 2007Interesting old war film. Scandalous kiss scene, that was just wrong back then! Haha, good stuff though.
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MCT:October 28, 2007
I love this movie plenty. really do. Gary Cooper plays this Tennessee hillbilly with a hair trigger temper who became a Christian, and got up in WW1. he tried to become a conscientious objector, but got rejected, ended up in WW1, where he became a hero. What I like about this film is the fact that this man had no qualms of entering a war, he had qualms about joining up, but in the end, because of his skills as a sharpshooter, he ends up becoming a war hero. Very interesting movie. Highly recommended.
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MCT:October 18, 2007
I don't want to be a soldier. I don't want to go to war. I would seriously consider dodging the draft if there still was one. I identified with Gary Cooper's character. Yet, the movie's message is strongly supporting war and a soldier's work. Somehow I still enjoyed the film, and can appreciate it for the things it does well.
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MCT:August 24, 2007
a true story with everything battle scenes a love interest and a mother a fantastic film gary cooper as york and walter brennan as the preacher are fantastic .joan leslie the girl his in love with and margeret wycherly as the mother great film recommend it to anyone
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MCT:June 26, 2007
The best movie I ever saw in my life! It is a true story and shows you that with God all things are possible! I'm a hillbilly so I can relate..
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MCT:May 15, 2007
i like gary cooper. however, this was propaganda, all the way. clearly designed to recruit religious objectors to the war.
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MCT:January 29, 2007
One of the classic war film with performances by Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie Based upon the story of Tennesseean, Alvin York, this movie features a wonderful cast and will touch you deep down on several occasions.
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MCT:January 11, 2007
Based upon the story of my fellow Tennesseean, Alvin York, this movie features a wonderful cast and will touch you deep down on several occasions.
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